Given name
Muḥammad
“to praise, commend, laud”
Muḥammad is used as a given name.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Muḥammad is a romanization of محمد. محمد goes back to a word meaning “to praise, commend, laud.”
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Muḥammad’s family of names
In English usage, Muḥammad has a related form in Muhammad.
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People named Muḥammad
- Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-FazārīPersian mathematician and astronomer746–806
- Muḥammad ibn Maʻn ibn Sumādiḥ al-Muʻtaṣim1037–1091
- Muḥammad Ibn-Naṣr al- Marwazī817–906
- Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Khatib Al-Tabrizi
- Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī SindīSindhi scholar
- Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá al-DhuhlīPersian Hadith scholar788–872
- Muḥammad Ibn DāniyālIraqi poet1238–1310
- Muḥammad al-Khiḍr ḤusaynAlgerian writer1876–1958
- Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir KurdīA Kurdish Saudi scholar, calligrapher of the Quran of Mecca1903–1980
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