first name
MOHAMED
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 46,254 people named Mohamed, 46.3% reported their origin as White, 41.3% as Black and 7.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Mohamed peaked in 2014, when 712 babies got the name.
At least 19,350 babies have been given the name since 1943. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Mohamed by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #950. The largest share of babies named Mohamed, 43.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Mohamed is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mohamed has been most common in Minnesota (5×), New York (2.7×), and Michigan (2.6×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.11×).
17,523 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Mohamed
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mohamed, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Mohamed ranks #827 of 156,621, with 40,957 people. See Mohamed as a last name
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