Muhammad is an Arabic name meaning ‘praiseworthy’, derived from the root ‘hamida’ meaning ‘to praise’. It can also be spelled Muhammed, Muhamad, Mohammad, or Mohamed, among others.
Muhammad is a male first name.
The name Muhammad isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Muhammad ranks 341. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 5 were named Muhammad. In the entire USA, approximately 15,724 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Muhammad. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Muhammad is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Muhammad cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #287 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Muhammad, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Muhammad seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Muhammad was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With eight letters, the name Muhammad is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Muhammad and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Muhammad, you can simply say:
Mouse
Unicorn
Hat
Apple
Mouse
Mouse
Apple
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Muhammad
Muhammad
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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U
H
A
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M
A
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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U
H
A
M
M
A
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Muhammad sounds like this:
