Magamed
Just over a hundred men in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. The name is Arabic in origin and carries the sense of "praised".
Magamed Pronunciation
Magamed is pronounced mah-GAH-met (/maˈgamɛt/).
What Magamed means
Where Magamed comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Magamed reaches Poland from the North Caucasus. There the Arabic name Muhammad was reshaped by Chechen, Avar, and Dagestani speakers into forms like Magomed and Magamed, the g standing where Arabic has a sound those languages handle their own way. Behind every version sits the Arabic root h-m-d, which carries the sense of praise. Muhammad reads as "the praised one," so the short meaning of Magamed, wielce chwalony, stays close to that root rather than drifting into a later gloss.
A boy called Magamed today might turn up on a school register in Białystok, or on a form at the urząd, spelled Magomed or Magamed depending on which Caucasian version his family carried west. The paperwork rarely settles on one spelling. Both point back to the same praised name.
Magamed means praised.
How many people are named Magamed
1 in 197650 men in Poland is named Magamed. 108 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3278 among male names.