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محمد
“to praise, commend, laud”
محمد (muḥammad) is a masculine given name. It is used in Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and 4 other languages.
Arabic and Azerbaijani and Ottoman Turkish and Pashto and Persian and Punjabi and Urdu and ajp and sdWritten in Arabic script, read right to left. In English: Muhammad.
Meaning & origin
What it means
محمد goes back to a word meaning “to praise, commend, laud.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
محمد’s family of names
In Arabic usage, محمد has a diminutive in حمودة. In Ottoman Turkish usage, محمد has a later derivative in Mehmet. In Urdu usage, محمد has a conventional equivalent in the German form Mohammed.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
محمد has relatives in 12 languages.
16 related names in 12 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named محمد
- MuhammadArabian political leader and the founder of Islam (c. 570–632)571–632
- Muhammad AliAmerican boxer (1942–2016)
- Akbarthe third and greatest Mughal emperor from 1556 to 16051542–1605
- Ibn Battuta14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer1304–1368
- Al-Khwarizmi9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer780–850
- Al-GhazaliPersian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic (c.1058–1111)1056–1111
- Hosni MubarakPresident of Egypt from 1981 to 20111928–2020
- Muhammad YunusBangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the former Chief Adviser of Bangladeshborn 1940
- Mohammad KhatamiPresident of Iran from 1997 to 2005born 1943
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