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How popular is the name Muhammad?

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

Muhammad (male) is the most popular boys' name in England and Wales, given to 5,721 babies in 2024. It has risen strongly over the past decade. At least 72,000 babies have been named Muhammad in England and Wales since 1996.

The Muhammad you are most likely to meet is around 3 years old. Half of all Muhammads born in England and Wales are between 6 and 17, and there are at least 74,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 22% chance that at least one of them will be called Muhammad.

How many babies are named Muhammad each year?

Where does Muhammad 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.