Given name & surname
Muhamed
“praised, praiseworthy”
Muhamed is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in English, Norwegian Bokmål, and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Muhamed goes back to Arabic محمّد, meaning “praised, praiseworthy.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Muhamed has a related form in Muhammad. An origin associated with Muhammad is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Muhamed through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 618
- 618 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 28 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #8,045 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −11%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,045 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 10.6% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 28 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,300 as a first name in 2020; 338 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Muhamed’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Muhamed shares an earlier linguistic root with MEHMED. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Muhamed has a related form in Mohammad. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Muhamed has a related form in Mohammad.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Muhamed has relatives in 10 languages.
14 related names in 10 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Muhamed
- Muhamed BešićBosnian footballerborn 1992
- Muhamed MujićBosnian footballer (1932-2016)
- Muhamed MehmedbašićMuslim revolutionary and conspirator1886–1943
- FazlaBosnia and Herzegovina singerborn 1967
- Muhamed MemićYugoslav handball playerborn 1960
- Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi BosneviBosnian writer1601–1651
- Muhamed FilipovićBosnia and Herzegovina philosopher (1929-2020)
- Muhamed ToromanovićBosnian handball playerborn 1984
- Muhamed KonjićBosnia and Herzegovina footballerborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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