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Muhammad

Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Bengali, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Malay, Pashto, Punjabi, Tajik, Urdu, Uzbek, Avar

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Meaning & History

Signifies "praised, commendable" in Arabic, derived from the root حمد (ḥamida) signifying "to praise". This was the name of the prophet who founded the Islamic religion in the 7th century. According to Islamic belief, at age 40 Muhammad was visited by the angel Gabriel, who provided him with the first verses of the Quran. Approximately 20 years later he conquered Mecca, the city of his birth, and his followers controlled most of the Arabian Peninsula at the time of his death in 632.

Since the prophet's time, this name has been enormously popular in the Muslim world. It was borne by several Abbasid caliphs and six sultans of the Ottoman Empire (though their names are usually rendered in the Turkish spelling Mehmet). Other notable bearers include Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (9th century), a Persian mathematician and scientist who devised algebra, Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd (1126-1198), an Andalusian scholar also known as Averroes, and Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273), a Persian poet. In the modern era, notable bearers include Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948), the founder of Pakistan, and the American boxer Muhammad Ali (1942-2016).

Related Names

Variants (Arabic): Mahomet, Mahometus, Mihammad
(Malay): Mohamad, Mohamed, Mohammad
(Bengali): Mohammed
(Arabic): Muhammed
(Avar): Muhamad
Other Languages & Cultures (Turkish): Mehmet
(Albanian): Muhamet
(Azerbaijani): Məhəmməd
(Dargin): Mahammad
(Azerbaijani): Məmməd, Mammad
(Tatar): Möxämmät
(Berber): Muḥand
(Ottoman Turkish): Mehmed
(Bosnian): Muhamed
(Central African): Mahamat
(Chechen): Mokhmad
(Swahili): Mohamed
(Hausa): Muhammadu, Mamman
(Ingush): Mukhmad
(Kazakh): Mūhammed, Mukhammed, Mūhamed, Mukhamed
(Kurdish): Mihemed
(Ossetian): Makhamat
(Persian): Mohammad
(Russian): Magomed, Magomet, Mukhammad
(Somali): Maxamed
(Tatar): Möxämmäd
(Turkish): Muhammed
(Turkmen): Muhammet
(Uyghur): Muhemmet
(Western African): Mahamadou, Mamadou, Mamadu, Modou
Surname Descendants (Arabic): Mohamed
(Urdu): Mohammed, Muhammad
(Avar): Magomedov, Magomedova
(Urdu): Mohammad

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