Mohammad
A Muslim personal-name surname built on Muhammad, the name of the Prophet of Islam.
The #6,079 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 54,752 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Mohammad is a surname formed from the widespread Islamic given name Muhammad, with spelling influenced by Persian, Urdu, and other languages that regularly render the consonants with doubled letters or local transliteration habits. The name ultimately comes from Arabic, where Muhammad means “praised” or “highly praised,” from the root ḥ-m-d, “to praise.” As a surname, it is usually patronymic in practice: it identifies someone as descended from or associated with a man named Mohammad/Muhammad.
History
As a family name, Mohammad appears across Muslim communities in South Asia, the Middle East, and the diaspora, often as a hereditary surname, a patronymic, or part of a multi-part name. In English-language records it is one of several spellings of the same underlying Arabic name, alongside Muhammad, Mohammed, and Mohamad. The spelling used in a family often reflects local language conventions and the way immigration officials or recordkeepers transliterated the name.
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Fun fact
It is one of the most common personal names in the world, so it can appear both as a first name and, later, as a surname in many different naming systems.
From the historical record
“duce un fraofmento D. Emilio Lafuente Alean- tara, en sus Inscripciones ára.hes de Granada ^ se nombra á Abul Hásan Aly ebn Mohammad At- tocbibí, conocido por Axkilyola, y el Sr. La- fuente anota el pasaje con esta cita : (( Cuenta Argote de Molina que en el año de 1232 hubo junto a Arjona un desafío de cien…”
— Ensayo histórico etimológico filológico sobre los apellidos castellanos