Mohamed

Where Mohamed comes from

The dictionaries list Mohamed as a given name — a male given name from Arabic, variant of Muhammad — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1942
    Mohamed ElBaradei born
    Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
  2. 1943
    First appearance
    #3,231 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1951
    Mohamed Morsi born
    president of Egypt from 2012 to 2013
  4. 2014
    Peak, #428
    712 babies named Mohamed — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic, variant of Muhammad.
Namesakes
  • Mohamed Morsi · president of Egypt from 2012 to 2013, 1951–2019
  • Mohamed ElBaradei · Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, born 1942
  • Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz · President of Mauritania from 2009 to 2019, born 1956
  • Mohamed Nasheed · Maldivian politician, 4th president of the second republic of Maldives, born 1967
  • Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed · the 10th and current president of the Federal Republic of Somalia, born 1962

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.