Mohammed Forename
3rd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 45,652,154 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Bangladesh
Highest density in:
Bangladesh
Mohammed Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh | 100% | 34,907,071 | 1:5 | 1 |
| India | 100% | 4,230,997 | 1:287 | 2 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 1,407,369 | 1:126 | 6 |
| Sudan | 100% | 1,330,675 | 1:28 | 2 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 1,071,407 | 1:91 | 3 |
| Morocco | 100% | 878,972 | 1:39 | 2 |
| Algeria | 100% | 294,357 | 1:130 | 15 |
| Egypt | 100% | 246,401 | 1:373 | 66 |
| Malaysia | 100% | 225,701 | 1:135 | 15 |
| Ghana | 83% | 202,718 | 1:133 | 14 |
| Libya | - | 126,694 | 1:49 | 5 |
| England | 100% | 87,445 | 1:636 | 143 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 66,958 | 1:311 | 31 |
| Pakistan | 75% | 62,935 | 1:3,088 | 502 |
| Oman | 100% | 61,045 | 1:67 | 7 |
| Eritrea | 100% | 55,739 | 1:85 | 21 |
| United States | 100% | 48,900 | 1:7,414 | 897 |
| Kenya | 84% | 29,043 | 1:1,594 | 303 |
| Spain | 100% | 25,466 | 1:1,827 | 255 |
| France | 100% | 21,651 | 1:3,070 | 336 |
| Liberia | 99% | 20,145 | 1:219 | 33 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 18,417 | 1:1,673 | 291 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 17,712 | 1:2,980 | 552 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 17,044 | 1:15,135 | 2,153 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 16,941 | 1:418 | 99 |
| Israel | 100% | 14,240 | 1:590 | 112 |
| Iraq | 100% | 14,127 | 1:2,479 | 440 |
| South Africa | 100% | 12,529 | 1:4,353 | 820 |
| Somalia | - | 11,808 | 1:1,145 | 190 |
| Canada | 100% | 9,750 | 1:3,398 | 611 |
| Mozambique | - | 9,120 | 1:2,987 | 632 |
| Uganda | 97% | 8,855 | 1:4,625 | 553 |
| Thailand | 100% | 7,422 | 1:9,440 | 1,549 |
| Belgium | 100% | 6,793 | 1:1,691 | 387 |
| Gambia | - | 6,459 | 1:298 | 71 |
| Fiji | - | 6,417 | 1:139 | 1 |
| Angola | - | 6,343 | 1:4,251 | 691 |
| Sweden | 100% | 5,413 | 1:1,821 | 291 |
| Poland | 100% | 4,995 | 1:7,613 | 381 |
| Germany | 100% | 4,041 | 1:23,924 | 999 |
| Syria | - | 3,838 | 1:5,030 | 598 |
| Rwanda | - | 3,384 | 1:3,360 | 662 |
| Scotland | 100% | 3,054 | 1:1,752 | 273 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 2,983 | 1:2,398 | 274 |
| Australia | - | 2,759 | 1:4,950 | 653 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 2,594 | 1:6,516 | 929 |
| Jordan | 100% | 2,568 | 1:3,437 | 499 |
| Togo | - | 1,895 | 1:3,820 | 631 |
| New Zealand | - | 1,790 | 1:2,534 | 449 |
| Philippines | 100% | 1,548 | 1:68,482 | 4,402 |
| Cameroon | 96% | 1,422 | 1:15,197 | 1,527 |
| Denmark | - | 1,403 | 1:4,027 | 528 |
| Mali | 100% | 1,381 | 1:12,294 | 991 |
| Wales | 100% | 1,346 | 1:2,299 | 394 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 1,327 | 1:978 | 139 |
| Norway | 100% | 1,231 | 1:4,169 | 550 |
| Kuwait | - | 940 | 1:4,027 | 532 |
| Yemen | - | 902 | 1:29,154 | 1,031 |
| Brunei | 100% | 869 | 1:483 | 46 |
| Djibouti | - | 848 | 1:1,080 | 213 |
| Malawi | 100% | 804 | 1:21,284 | 1,901 |
| Bahrain | - | 799 | 1:1,688 | 278 |
| Chad | 100% | 741 | 1:18,351 | 2,681 |
| Italy | 100% | 735 | 1:83,078 | 1,710 |
| Singapore | 97% | 720 | 1:8,732 | 1,611 |
| Qatar | 100% | 698 | 1:3,395 | 519 |
| Brazil | 100% | 661 | 1:324,109 | 12,288 |
| Austria | 100% | 656 | 1:12,979 | 717 |
| Ireland | 100% | 620 | 1:7,490 | 614 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 527 | 1:15,585 | 1,243 |
| DR Congo | 98% | 466 | 1:158,428 | 7,430 |
| Japan | - | 346 | 1:369,902 | 9,538 |
| Russia | 100% | 345 | 1:418,069 | 4,888 |
| Gabon | - | 321 | 1:5,867 | 1,120 |
| Tunisia | 100% | 320 | 1:2,115 | 397 |
| Finland | 82% | 303 | 1:18,096 | 1,066 |
| Guyana | 100% | 253 | 1:3,017 | 592 |
| China | - | 251 | 1:5,442,453 | 55,904 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 248 | 1:5,490 | 941 |
| Greece | 100% | 242 | 1:45,184 | 1,636 |
| Swaziland | - | 231 | 1:5,628 | 945 |
| Botswana | 100% | 185 | 1:11,808 | 1,626 |
| Iran | - | 177 | 1:443,485 | 5,674 |
| Portugal | - | 175 | 1:59,491 | 1,934 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 160 | 1:144,225 | 7,906 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 155 | 1:198,622 | 4,583 |
| Zambia | - | 147 | 1:107,856 | 4,913 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 136 | 1:239,879 | 5,698 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 132 | 1:139,238 | 6,932 |
| Suriname | 100% | 132 | 1:4,188 | 917 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 111 | 1:93,975 | 4,991 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 100 | 1:54,729 | 826 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 95 | 1:88,157 | 2,897 |
| Turkey | 100% | 90 | 1:864,463 | 9,240 |
| Romania | 100% | 89 | 1:225,303 | 7,546 |
| Benin | 100% | 87 | 1:121,561 | 6,995 |
| Senegal | 100% | 80 | 1:182,267 | 3,877 |
| Niger | 92% | 69 | 1:278,029 | 6,975 |
| Guinea | 100% | 68 | 1:174,392 | 2,486 |
| Malta | - | 68 | 1:6,314 | 764 |
| South Korea | - | 65 | 1:85,299 | 4,635 |
| Hungary | 100% | 60 | 1:163,196 | 937 |
| Seychelles | - | 58 | 1:1,598 | 376 |
| Palestine | 96% | 57 | 1:79,826 | 1,740 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 55 | 1:295,879 | 8,007 |
| Mexico | 97% | 53 | 1:2,342,348 | 12,993 |
| Hong Kong | - | 52 | 1:149,091 | 3,059 |
| Maldives | 100% | 50 | 1:8,678 | 446 |
| Belarus | 100% | 37 | 1:256,281 | 2,042 |
| Estonia | 100% | 37 | 1:35,551 | 2,373 |
| Barbados | - | 36 | 1:8,050 | 966 |
| Madagascar | - | 36 | 1:656,372 | 1,939 |
| Czechia | 100% | 35 | 1:304,462 | 1,977 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 34 | 1:54,210 | 1,243 |
| Lebanon | 83% | 34 | 1:165,517 | 3,965 |
| Ecuador | - | 33 | 1:537,179 | 5,554 |
| Nepal | 100% | 33 | 1:863,253 | 19,903 |
| Mauritania | 100% | 32 | 1:127,976 | 4,561 |
| Ukraine | - | 31 | 1:1,467,739 | 4,233 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 31 | 1:974,255 | 21,161 |
| Myanmar | - | 26 | 1:1,998,010 | 880 |
| Burundi | 100% | 25 | 1:396,262 | 737 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 25 | 1:45,508 | 307 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 25 | 1:462,041 | 849 |
| Iceland | - | 22 | 1:16,637 | 1,246 |
| Vietnam | - | 22 | 1:4,210,142 | 3,505 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 19 | 1:45,846 | 2,096 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 18 | 1:17,674 | 1,515 |
| Central African Republic | - | 16 | 1:282,212 | 391 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 15 | 1:642,863 | 11,711 |
| Jamaica | - | 13 | 1:221,787 | 7,032 |
| New Caledonia | - | 13 | 1:20,782 | 1,589 |
| Chile | 100% | 12 | 1:1,467,267 | 11,454 |
| Panama | 100% | 12 | 1:325,546 | 10,471 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 12 | 1:1,285,318 | 41,030 |
| Guam | - | 10 | 1:16,065 | 1,791 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 10 | 1:10,975 | 1,397 |
| Bermuda | - | 9 | 1:7,203 | 999 |
| Comoros | - | 9 | 1:84,593 | 329 |
| Haiti | - | 9 | 1:1,191,884 | 16,425 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 9 | 1:1,971,872 | 15,474 |
| Peru | 100% | 9 | 1:3,532,384 | 29,289 |
| Aruba | - | 8 | 1:12,972 | 1,901 |
| Curaçao | - | 8 | 1:19,475 | 726 |
| Monaco | - | 8 | 1:4,808 | 802 |
| Taiwan | 58% | 8 | 1:2,971,210 | 60,968 |
| Argentina | 100% | 7 | 1:6,110,463 | 14,292 |
| Belize | 100% | 7 | 1:50,616 | 3,777 |
| Congo | - | 7 | 1:715,601 | 13,459 |
| Grenada | 100% | 7 | 1:15,446 | 1,649 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 7 | 1:758,580 | 3,008 |
| American Samoa | - | 6 | 1:9,308 | 1,982 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 6 | 1:16,566 | 2,341 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 6 | 1:1,165,065 | 11,780 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 6 | 1:794,658 | 9,692 |
| Georgia | 100% | 6 | 1:623,078 | 10,501 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 6 | 1:591,717 | 4,217 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 5 | 1:407,999 | 22,262 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 5 | 1:1,630,463 | 100,826 |
| Serbia | - | 5 | 1:1,429,144 | 6,659 |
| Bhutan | - | 4 | 1:206,232 | 3,492 |
| Macau | - | 4 | 1:152,052 | 991 |
| Namibia | - | 4 | 1:601,045 | 7,837 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 4 | 1:1,504,584 | 16,652 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 4 | 1:27,895 | 3,010 |
| Albania | 100% | 3 | 1:1,015,523 | 26,928 |
| Bolivia | - | 3 | 1:3,533,801 | 5,917 |
| Croatia | 100% | 3 | 1:1,405,692 | 11,430 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 3 | 1:16,376 | 1,521 |
| Jersey | - | 3 | 1:33,327 | 1,495 |
| Latvia | - | 3 | 1:671,882 | 3,893 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 3 | 1:188,016 | 3,003 |
| Moldova | - | 3 | 1:1,187,046 | 5,200 |
| Paraguay | - | 3 | 1:2,412,268 | 9,978 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 3 | 1:59,272 | 4,116 |
| Armenia | 100% | 2 | 1:1,459,376 | 10,220 |
| Colombia | - | 2 | 1:23,889,463 | 63,722 |
| Guatemala | - | 2 | 1:8,054,214 | 10,362 |
| Isle of Man | - | 2 | 1:42,512 | 455 |
| Kosovo | - | 2 | 1:930,720 | 16,593 |
| North Macedonia | - | 2 | 1:1,045,378 | 12,250 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 2 | 1:27,430 | 2,159 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 2 | 1:290,478 | 6,813 |
| Transnistria | - | 2 | 1:237,819 | 1,799 |
| Uruguay | - | 2 | 1:1,713,818 | 10,870 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Cape Verde | - | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Cuba | - | 1 | 1:11,506,552 | 13,531 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| El Salvador | - | 1 | 1:6,341,786 | 16,428 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Honduras | - | 1 | 1:8,817,467 | 33,018 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Montenegro | - | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| San Marino | - | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
Mohammed (6,090,697) may also be a surname.
Mohammed Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Arabic (masculine) - Greatly praised.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
Arabic (masculine) - Greatly praised.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
User-submitted Reference
Mehmet 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.
- metastaThis name come from an authentic Arabic masculine noun, which is an exaggerated form of the verb praise. It means 'person with praiseworthy qualities', 'thanksgiving one'.
- adnanghThis name derives from the Arabic word hamd, which means 'thankfulness', and hence means 'that of many thanks', or 'one who is very thankful'.
- beno96The meaning are comes from the Arabic word alhamdulillah and means 'thanks to God'.
- mohamedabdelrazik30Mohammed Forename Popularity
Mohammed Demographics
Average Male Mohammed Height
172.23 cm
Average male height (US):
175.3 cm
Sample size: 2,707 (2014)
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
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