Mohamed
An Arabic name meaning "praiseworthy". In Poland it stays rare, carried by around 2,000 men and boys and given to only a handful each year, fewer now than a decade ago.
Mohamed Pronunciation
Mohamed is pronounced mo-KHAH-met (/mɔˈxamɛt/).
What Mohamed means
Where Mohamed comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Mohamed comes from Arabic, built on the three-letter root ḥ-m-d, which means "to praise." From that same root Arabic forms the word hamd, the praise inside the phrase Alhamdulillah, and it gives Mohamed its sense of "praiseworthy," the one worthy of being praised. In Polish the meaning is usually rendered as chwalebny or wychwalany.
The best-known bearer is the Prophet Muhammad, who lived in Arabia around 570 to 632. Mohamed is one of the spellings his name took as it spread, common across Egypt and North Africa. For a long time it has ranked among the most frequently given names on earth.
In Poland it is rarer, a name that families of Arabic background carry. Picture a Warsaw school register where Mohamed sits a few lines below Michał and Mikołaj, read out at the same morning roll.
The name says something plain. It marks the child as praiseworthy, chwalebny, from the same root as the everyday Arabic word for praise.
How many people are named Mohamed
1 in 10194 men in Poland is named Mohamed. 2,094 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #692 among male names.
Mohamed's popularity over time
0 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Mohamed is most popular
Mohamed is most popular in Lublin, 952% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+205%).
Mohamed as a middle name
Mohamed is a first name for 2,094 men in Poland and a middle name for another 654, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 281st, between Roger (665) and Manfred (652).
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