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Name element

Mohd name meaning

“praised, commendable”

Letters
4
Syllables
1
First letter
M
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1980s: 10.3%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s10.3%
1990s6.4%
2000s–
2010s–

Malay Names: MMeaning faithArabic origin

Mohd is an abbreviation of Muhammad, an Arabic name meaning 'praised', usually the first element of a boy's name.

What does Mohd mean?

Praised, commendable

In Malay: terpuji

#Faith

Sources (2)

About the name Mohd

Mohd is an abbreviation of Mohammed or Muhammad commonly used in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore. It is usually the first element of a boy's name, followed by a personal name. Muhammad comes from the Arabic root ḥamida, 'to praise', and means 'praised'. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1980s with 4,673 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic
Rootح م د · ḥ-m-d
SyllablesMohd
First letterMalay Names starting with M
Arabic scriptمحمد

Mohd in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
Boy: 4,673 · 10.3%
1990s
Boy: 3,361 · 6.4%
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Mohd as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Mohd

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Mohd · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Behind the Name: Muhammad · behindthename.com · meaning

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