Muhammad in Arabic: How to Write محمد, and What It Means

Muhammad in Arabic is محمد, pronounced Muḥammad. Muhammad is an Arabic name, so it has a fixed Arabic spelling. It has four letters: mīm, ḥāʾ, mīm and dāl. With its vowel marks it is مُحَمَّد. The name means praised, praiseworthy.

Copy the spelling you need from the table. The cells hold the plain letters of محمد with no hidden direction marks, and the Listen button reads Muḥammad in your device's Arabic voice, if it has one.

Muhammad in Arabic calligraphy: محمد in three styles

Three renders of محمد, in Amiri, Reem Kufi and Noto Nastaliq Urdu, drawn straight from the font files.

How محمد is spelled, letter by letter

محمد has four letters, read from right to left, starting with the letter م, mīm. Every letter of محمد joins the one after it, so the name is one unbroken shape. Arabic writes only long vowels as letters. The three short vowels, and the shadda that doubles a consonant, are marks that everyday spelling leaves out; مُحَمَّد shows them.

What does Muhammad mean?

Muhammad means praised, praiseworthy, from the Arabic root ح م د. That is the meaning our Arabic name generator gives it, and the list of Arabic boy names with their meanings repeats it with its sources.

Behind the Name gives praised, commendable, from the verb ḥamida, to praise. It is the name of the Prophet of Islam, and since his time it has been very popular in the Muslim world.

Muhammad, Mohamed, Mohammed and Mohammad: English spellings of محمد

Arabic has one spelling, محمد; English has several. Muhammad was one of the 500 most common names given to boys born in the US in 2024, in the Social Security Administration's 2024 national file, as copied in the usbabynames data package, and Mohamed, Mohammed and Mohammad are in the US top 1,000 for 2024 as well. They are all one Arabic name. The doubled m comes from the shadda on the mīm, مَّ, and the h is the breathy ḥāʾ, ح. The Latin spellings differ only in how they write the vowels and the double m.

Do not build Muhammad from its English sound. A sound-by-sound converter turns it into موهاماد, letter by letter m, oo, h, aa, m, aa, d, and that is what the rule engine of our own name tool gives, marked as an estimate. Arabic already has this name, so copy محمد.

The titles Arabic Wikipedia gives people called Muhammad show how Arabic writers handle the name:

Muhammad Ali and the Egyptian footballer Mohamed Salah are both written محمد: one Arabic spelling behind two Latin ones.

Two related names on this site are Ali in Arabic, علي and Hamza in Arabic, حمزة. For Arabic names to choose from, browse the Arabic boy names with their meanings, part of our Arabic vocabulary lists.

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