Mohammed

With 34 907 071 bearers, Mohammed is the 1st most common masculine given name in Bangladesh (2014 Data). With 4 230 997 bearers, Mohammed is the 2nd most common masculine given name in India (2014 Data). With 1 407 369 bearers, Mohammed is the 6th most common masculine given name in Nigeria (2014 Data). With 1 330 675 bearers, Mohammed is the 2nd most common masculine given name in Sudan (2014 Data). With 1 071 407 bearers, Mohammed is the 3rd most common masculine given name in Ethiopia (2014 Data). With 878 972 bearers, Mohammed is the 2nd most common masculine given name in Morocco (2014 Data). With 126 694 bearers, Mohammed is the 5th most common masculine given name in Libya (2014 Data). With 61 045 bearers, Mohammed is the 7th most common masculine given name in Oman (2014 Data). With 6 417 bearers, Mohammed is the 1st most common masculine given name in Fiji (2014 Data).

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Source: https://forebears.io/forenames/mohammed

Mohammed is also Urdu, as an alternate transcription of Muhammad. It is used alongside Muhammad and Mohammad in Pakistan.

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Scripts: محمد (Urdu)

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Urdu Pronunciation: mo-HAM-mad.

A Muslim friend told me that in some Muslim countries, as many as a quarter of all boys are given the name Mohammed or some variant spelling. Considering many people from these countries immigrate to Europe, that could explain why Mohammed ranks so high on European popularity charts.

Mohammed is the most common (boys) name in Malmö, a city in Sweden. That is pretty wierd, since it's not a Swedish name at all. On the other hand, there are a lot of immigrants from middle-east countries in Malmö.