Given name & surname
Mehmed
“to praise, commend, laud”
Mehmed is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in English, Turkish, and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mehmed is a romanization of محمد. محمد goes back to a word meaning “to praise, commend, laud.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In English use, Mehmed is a variant of Muhammad. An origin associated with Muhammad is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English usage, Mehmed developed from محمد.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mehmed through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 83
- 83 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 15
- #6,046 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 15 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,046 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (5). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 457 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mehmed’s family of names
In Bosnian usage, Mehmed has a short form in MEHA. In English usage, Mehmed shares an earlier linguistic root with Muhammad. In Bosnian usage, Mehmed has a conventional equivalent in the Danish form Mohamed.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mehmed has relatives in 31 languages.
46 related names in 31 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Muhammadvariant · English, Turkish
- Mehmetvariant · English, Turkish
- Muhamedvariant · Bosnian, Serbo-Croatian
- Mehashort form · Bosnian
- Mehanshort form · Bosnian
- Memićvariant · Serbo-Croatian
- Muhammetvariant · Turkish
- Mehoshort form · Croatian, Bosnian
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 37
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- MohamedDanish
- MohammedGerman, English
- MuhammedDanish
- Mamadubm
- Maxamedequivalent
- MahometoEsperanto
- MahomaSpanish, Catalan
- MohamedoEsperanto
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- Mèhmedhas masculine form
- Магьамматkum
- Memetcrh
- Mametcrh
- MahommCornish
- 무함마드Korean
- MaomettoItalian
- MúhameðIcelandic
- Мухьмадinh
- Махьматinh
- मुहम्मदHindi
- מוחמדHebrew
- MohamekaHawaiian
- MuhammaduHausa
- Mihemmedhac
- MahometFrench, English
- MohametoEsperanto
- MahomedGerman
- 穆罕默德Chinese
- МохамедBulgarian
- МухамедBulgarian
- МехмедBulgarian
- Madubm
- MəmmədAzerbaijani
- MəhəmmədAzerbaijani
- MühəmmədAzerbaijani
- MuhametAlbanian
- GammatAfrikaans
- MogammadAfrikaans
People named Mehmed
- Mehmed IIseventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)1432–1481
- Mehmed VI36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1918–1922)1861–1926
- Mehmed Ififth Ottoman Sultan (1413–1421)1386–1421
- Mehmed V35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1909–1918)1844–1918
- Mehmed IV19th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1648–1687)1642–1693
- Sokollu Mehmed PashaGrand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1505–1579)
- Namık KemalOttoman writer (1840-1888)
- Mehmed Emin Âli PashaOttoman statesman and Grand Vizier (1815–1871)
- Köprülü Mehmed PashaAlbanian Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1580-1661)1578–1661
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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