How popular is “Mohammed” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mohammed” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Mohammed” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Mohammed” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Mohammed” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Mohammed” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Mohammed” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mohammed” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Males	Bias toward female
1922	5	0.000002184	5	-100%
1928	6	0.000002654	6	-100%
1935	8	0.000003828	8	-100%
1942	5	0.00000183	5	-100%
1943	5	0.000001771	5	-100%
1946	7	0.000002191	7	-100%
1950	6	0.000001713	6	-100%
1952	8	0.000002106	8	-100%
1954	8	0.00000201	8	-100%
1955	6	0.000001494	6	-100%
1956	5	0.000001213	5	-100%
1957	5	0.00000119	5	-100%
1958	7	0.000001693	7	-100%
1959	5	0.000001203	5	-100%
1960	9	0.000002167	9	-100%
1961	6	0.000001448	6	-100%
1962	10	0.000002478	10	-100%
1963	7	0.000001768	7	-100%
1964	8	0.000002058	8	-100%
1965	10	0.000002758	10	-100%
1966	7	0.000002014	7	-100%
1967	10	0.000002946	10	-100%
1968	17	0.000005032	17	-100%
1969	13	0.000003741	13	-100%
1970	18	0.000004991	18	-100%
1971	24	0.000006992	24	-100%
1972	19	0.000006045	19	-100%
1973	29	0.000009613	29	-100%
1974	34	0.000011184	34	-100%
1975	40	0.000013248	40	-100%
1976	56	0.000018456	56	-100%
1977	59	0.000018574	59	-100%
1978	73	0.000023	73	-100%
1979	85	0.000025549	85	-100%
1980	82	0.000023806	82	-100%
1981	107	0.00003093	107	-100%
1982	131	0.000037344	131	-100%
1983	138	0.000039846	138	-100%
1984	128	0.000036689	128	-100%
1985	143	0.000040066	143	-100%
1986	138	0.000038796	138	-100%
1987	170	0.000047149	170	-100%
1988	177	0.000047902	177	-100%
1989	199	0.000051763	199	-100%
1990	223	0.00005642	223	-100%
1991	251	0.000064437	251	-100%
1992	239	0.000062219	239	-100%
1993	235	0.00006233	235	-100%
1994	296	0.00007962	296	-100%
1995	301	0.000082192	301	-100%
1996	309	0.000084723	309	-100%
1997	367	0.00010122	367	-100%
1998	395	0.000107389	395	-100%
1999	448	0.000121282	448	-100%
2000	432	0.000114289	432	-100%
2001	491	0.000131165	491	-100%
2002	386	0.000103256	386	-100%
2003	349	0.000091786	349	-100%
2004	349	0.000091339	349	-100%
2005	354	0.000092071	354	-100%
2006	370	0.000093524	370	-100%
2007	346	0.00008655	346	-100%
2008	374	0.000095149	374	-100%
2009	392	0.000102613	392	-100%
2010	413	0.00011175	413	-100%
2011	446	0.000121931	446	-100%
2012	467	0.000127687	467	-100%
2013	471	0.000129194	471	-100%
2014	566	0.00015271	566	-100%
2015	561	0.000151584	561	-100%
2016	461	0.000125658	461	-100%
2017	478	0.000133662	478	-100%
2018	425	0.00012088	425	-100%
2019	401	0.000115531	401	-100%
2020	418	0.000125128	418	-100%
2021	382	0.000112753	382	-100%
2022	367	0.000108479	367	-100%
2023	450	0.000135903	450	-100%
2024	481	0.000144509	481	-100%

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