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Muhammad name meaning

“praised; commendable”

Also spelled Mohamad and Muhamad

Letters
8
Syllables
3
First letter
M
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 2010s: 70.2%
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–
1980s6.2%
1990s18.6%
2000s42.4%
2010s70.2%
1,276

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Muhammad

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: MMeaning faithArabic origin

Muhammad is a boy's name from Arabic meaning 'praised' or 'commendable'.

What does Muhammad mean?

Praised; commendable

In Malay: terpuji; yang dipuji

#Faith

Sources (1)

About the name Muhammad

Muhammad transliterates the Arabic name مُحَمَّد (muḥammad), a passive participle of ḥammada, 'to praise', from the root ḥ-m-d. It is associated with the Prophet Muhammad. In Malaysia it appears as Muhammad, Mohamad, Mohammad or Muhamad, and abbreviations such as Mohd and Muhd are common in registered names. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 2010s with 35,274 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic
Rootح م د · ḥ-m-d
SyllablesMu-ham-mad
Other spellingsMohammad
First letterMalay Names starting with M
Arabic scriptمحمد
Tamil scriptமுகமது
Gurmukhi scriptਮੁਹੰਮਦ

Muhammad 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: 2,806 · 6.2%
1990s
Boy: 9,865 · 18.6%
2000s
Boy: 34,038 · 42.4%
2010s
Boy: 35,274 · 70.2%
People registered with Muhammad 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)

Other spellings in the JPN data: Mohamad (1940s 1,665 boy, 1950s 3,714 boy, 2000s 4,793 boy, 2010s 2,545 boy); Mohammad (2010s 1,482 boy); Muhamad (2010s 1,915 boy)

Compound names with Muhammad

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Muhammad · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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