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How popular is the name Mohammed?

Births per year, rank history and how many Mohammeds are alive today.

Mohammed (male) is currently the 21st most popular boys' name in England and Wales, with 1,760 babies given the name in 2024. The name peaked in 2008, when 3,442 babies were given the name, the 16th most popular that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 83,000 babies have been named Mohammed in England and Wales since 1924. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

The Mohammed you are most likely to meet is around 18 years old. Half of all Mohammeds born in England and Wales are between 17 and 48, and there are at least 130,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 35% chance that at least one of them will be called Mohammed.

How many babies are named Mohammed each year?

Where does Mohammed rank among boys' names?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.