Muhammed
Arabic and Turkish at root, the name means "praiseworthy". Most Poles have never met a Muhammed, but that's slowly shifting: more boys are given it now than a decade back, and it goes only to boys.
Muhammed Pronunciation
Muhammed is pronounced moo-KHAHM-met (/muˈxammɛt/).
What Muhammed means
Where Muhammed comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Muhammed reaches back to an Arabic root, h-m-d, that turns on the idea of praise. The name is that root's passive form, so it reads as praiseworthy, the one who is praised. Polish gives the sense as wychwalany, sławiony.
The spelling with a final e marks it as Turkish. Arabic keeps Muhammad, while Ottoman Turkish softened the vowels and wrote Muhammed, and the form travelled with Turkish families into cities far from Anatolia. It is the same name the Prophet of Islam carried, which is why it ranks among the most common given names on earth.
Read out from a Polish school register, Muhammed sits among the Antonis and Zuzannas as a marker of a family with roots in the Arab or Turkish world. The praise in it is old. Its meaning stays close to the surface: praiseworthy, sławiony.
How many people are named Muhammed
1 in 36804 men in Poland is named Muhammed. 580 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1237 among male names.
Muhammed's popularity over time
4 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1115 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Where Muhammed is most popular
Muhammed is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 boys born+510%
Muhammed as a middle name
Muhammed is a first name for 580 men in Poland and a middle name for another 27, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1638th, between Mahmood (27) and Mykhailo (27).
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#1636 Lutz27
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#1637 Mahmood27
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#1638 Muhammed27
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#1639 Mykhailo27
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#1640 Okechukwu27