boys:
15.2k births since 1922
#946 (79th percentile)
overall:
15.2k births since 1922
#2122 (73rd percentile)
The name Mohammed is the #2,122 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,242 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 72.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #946 (79.4% percentile) for all time with 15,242 births since 1922.
Mohammed first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (first recorded for boys in 1922). Birth data for Mohammed is available in 78 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Mohammed reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 49.5% percentile (ranked #457) with 276 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 276 births per million (ranked 49.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mohammed ranks #523 for boys (42.6% percentile) with 246 births per million, which is 89.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mohammed".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Mohammed", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 16 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Muhammad" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Muhammad..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Mohammed. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.7% confident that Mohammed is pronounced as moh-HA-muhd, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is moh-HAH-muhd, at 25.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M OW0 HH AE1 M AH0 D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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