Mehmed Forename
Approximately 38,349 people bear this name
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Mehmed (modern Turkish: Mehmet) is the most common Turkish form of the Arabic name Muhammad (Arabic: محمد) (Muhammed and Muhammet are also used, though considerably less) and gains its significance from being the name of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.
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| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria | 100% | 15,645 | 1:447 | 98 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 15,543 | 1:227 | 22 |
| Turkey | 100% | 2,123 | 1:36,647 | 1,958 |
| United States | 100% | 636 | 1:570,027 | 14,366 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 598 | 1:4,112 | 556 |
| Serbia | 100% | 554 | 1:12,898 | 991 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 425 | 1:1,493 | 316 |
| Croatia | 100% | 419 | 1:10,065 | 783 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 417 | 1:5,014 | 853 |
| Germany | 100% | 324 | 1:298,389 | 3,889 |
| Sweden | 100% | 286 | 1:34,468 | 2,044 |
| Kosovo | - | 233 | 1:7,989 | 1,261 |
| Austria | 100% | 207 | 1:41,131 | 1,352 |
| Egypt | 100% | 195 | 1:471,287 | 12,924 |
| Denmark | - | 98 | 1:57,648 | 2,073 |
| Belgium | 100% | 89 | 1:129,102 | 3,927 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 87 | 1:94,408 | 3,053 |
| Norway | 100% | 72 | 1:71,282 | 2,620 |
| Greece | 100% | 60 | 1:182,242 | 3,865 |
| Spain | 100% | 53 | 1:877,924 | 8,232 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 42 | 1:402,431 | 10,980 |
| England | 100% | 39 | 1:1,425,716 | 20,674 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 25 | 1:3,902,405 | 10,287 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 19 | 1:13,577,035 | 391,716 |
| France | 100% | 16 | 1:4,154,396 | 18,164 |
| Qatar | 100% | 13 | 1:182,277 | 21,851 |
| Canada | - | 13 | 1:2,548,721 | 34,380 |
| Ireland | - | 12 | 1:386,960 | 5,608 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 9 | 1:21,595,298 | 106,286 |
| Russia | 100% | 9 | 1:16,025,967 | 51,277 |
| Georgia | 100% | 7 | 1:534,067 | 9,579 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 5 | 1:1,928,589 | 20,785 |
| Yemen | - | 5 | 1:5,259,350 | 4,986 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 5 | 1:3,549,369 | 21,516 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 4 | 1:7,696,610 | 11,277 |
| Italy | 100% | 4 | 1:15,265,522 | 38,916 |
| Albania | 100% | 4 | 1:761,642 | 22,793 |
| Brazil | - | 4 | 1:53,559,038 | 368,334 |
| India | 67% | 4 | 1:303,719,493 | 2,628,057 |
| Australia | - | 3 | 1:4,552,541 | 30,048 |
| Finland | 100% | 3 | 1:1,827,728 | 14,078 |
| Malaysia | 100% | 3 | 1:10,149,980 | 208,386 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 3 | 1:188,016 | 3,003 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 2 | 1:2,813,786 | 13,895 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 2 | 1:3,575,996 | 76,635 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 2 | 1:2,986,638 | 34,954 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 2 | 1:159,066 | 2,607 |
| Scotland | 100% | 2 | 1:2,675,183 | 18,328 |
| Argentina | - | 1 | 1:42,773,243 | 43,333 |
| Portugal | - | 1 | 1:10,410,866 | 12,786 |
| Thailand | 100% | 1 | 1:70,065,813 | 391,235 |
| Bahrain | - | 1 | 1:1,348,673 | 7,854 |
| Belarus | - | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Algeria | 100% | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Chile | - | 1 | 1:17,607,208 | 48,996 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1 | 1:30,812,565 | 27,537 |
| China | - | 1 | 1:1,366,055,782 | 109,249 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Israel | 100% | 1 | 1:8,402,918 | 45,019 |
| Palestine | 100% | 1 | 1:4,550,058 | 5,739 |
| Czechia | 50% | 1 | 1:10,656,162 | 11,509 |
| Oman | 100% | 1 | 1:4,108,667 | 12,526 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 1 | 1:73,827,605 | 146,761 |
| New Zealand | - | 1 | 1:4,536,044 | 17,392 |
| Estonia | - | 1 | 1:1,315,380 | 8,883 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Hungary | - | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Iraq | - | 1 | 1:35,017,859 | 22,933 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
Mehmed (26,811) may also be a surname.
Mehmed Forename Meaning
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Mehmed (modern Turkish: Mehmet) is the most common Turkish form of the Arabic name Muhammad (Arabic: محمد) (Muhammed and Muhammet are also used, though considerably less) and gains its significance from being the name of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Originally the intermediary vowels in the Arabic Muhammad were completed with an e in adoption to Turkish phonotactics, which spelled Mehemed and the name lost the central e over time. Final devoicing of d to t is a regular process in Turkish. The prophet himself is referred to in Turkish using the archaic version, Muhammed.
Pronunciation:
- Turkish: [mehˈmet]
- Bosnian: [ˈmɛxmɛd]
- German: [meːˈmɛt]
The name Mehmet also often appears in derived compound names. The name is also prevalent in former Ottoman territories, particularly among Balkan Muslims in Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo. The name is also commonly used in Turkish culture in the form of Mehmetçik, meaning little Mehmet, for unranked soldiers.
- turquoiseMehmet or Mehmed is a Turkified version of the Arabic name مُحَمَّد (Mohammad), which means 'praised'. Mohammad is the name of the prophet of Islam. Mehmet is very popular name in Turkey, because of the Sultan Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople.
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