Muhammet
Just over 300 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. A Turkish name at root, from the Arabic for "praiseworthy, the praised one".
Muhammet Pronunciation
Muhammet is pronounced moo-KHAHM-met (/muˈxammɛt/).
What Muhammet means
Where Muhammet comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Muhammet is the Turkish spelling of Muhammad, and it rests on the Arabic root h-m-d, the root behind words for praise. Its meaning points back to that root without detour: praiseworthy, the praised one. Turkish trims the doubled consonants of the older form and settles the vowels into its own mouth. So the name arrives already shaped by one language crossing into another.
Names from this root spread widely. Ahmet, Mahmut and Hamit share the same three consonants, each turning the idea of praise a different way. Muhammet keeps the fullest version of it. A boy given the name holds a plain claim: worthy of good words.
On a Polish class register the name sits among the Kacpers and Antonis, a marker of a family with Turkish ties or Muslim faith. It has no imieniny in the Polish calendar. What it does have is transparent meaning, the one the grounding gives in Polish too: godny pochwały, chwalony.
How many people are named Muhammet
1 in 63911 men in Poland is named Muhammet. 334 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1652 among male names.
Muhammet as a middle name
Muhammet is a first name for 334 men in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3151st, between Mon (10) and Nanda (10).
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#3149 Milen10
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#3150 Mon10
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#3151 Muhammet10
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#3152 Nanda10
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#3153 Nasim10