Mohammed - Meaning of Mohammed

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Mohammed

[ 3 syll. mo-ham-med, moh-amm-ed ] The baby boy name Mohammed is pronounced as MowHHAA-MehD †. Mohammed is used mostly in the Arabic and English languages, and its language of origin is Arabic. Mohammed is a derivative of the Arabic and English name Muhammad.

A form of Mohammed is the Arabic and English variant spelling Mohamed.

See also the related categories, english and arabic.

Mohammed is fairly popular as a baby name for boys. The name has been rising in popularity since the 1980s; prior to that, it was of sporadic use only. At the modest peak of its usage in 2014, 0.028% of baby boys were given the name Mohammed. Its ranking then was #497. In 2018, its usage was 0.022% and its ranking #627. Out of the group of boy names directly linked to Mohammed, Muhammad was the most regularly used. In 2018, the name was twice as popular as Mohammed.

Baby names that sound like Mohammed include Mohamed, Mohammad, Maadai, Maanit, Madteo, Madue, Mahanta, Mahita, Maitiú, Mamduh, Mandita, Manita, Manota, Matheiu, Matias, Matitia, Matiu, Mattheo, Matyi, and Matyo.

† Pronunciation for Mohammed: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; OW as in "oak (OW.K)" ; HH as in "he (HH.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; EH as in "ebb (EH.B)" ; D as in "day (D.EY)"

A famous person named Mohammed is Yasser Arafat, Politician, born Mohammed Yasser Abdul-Ra'ouf Qudwa Al-Husseini, 24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004, Cairo, Egypt.