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Mehmed

“praiseworthy”

Language contexts for this entry: English, French, Spanish and 7 more

masculineLatin script

\mɛ.mɛd\ · French

Origin: Arabic
10 language contexts: English French Spanish +7 more
Follow the evidence: 9 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Mehmed

Mehmed is a masculine given name documented in English, French, Spanish and 7 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Arabic مُحَمَّد via Ottoman Turkish. It is a form of Muhammad, for which English Wikipedia gives the meaning “praiseworthy”.

2 source accounts

Arabic origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “praiseworthy”

From Ottoman Turkish محمد (Mehmed, Mehmet), from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad). Doublet of Muhammad.

Follow the language links in this account

Read from more recent borrowed forms toward older source forms. This is a derivation account, not a dated timeline.

Ottoman Turkish
Arabic

Only explicit language links are shown. The full passage may also discuss word roots, comparisons or uncertain proposals.

Read the cited Wiktionary entry

Sources for this account (7)

Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (en): Muhammad (name)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia (en): MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

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Polish Wiktionary accountSource-reportedarab.

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Sources for this account (1)

Polish Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Documented usage

View usage notes (11)

Masculine usage · Wikidata Q12796324
Masculine usage in English · Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Serbo-Croatian · Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Turkish · Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Bosnian · German Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Finnish · Greek Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Albanian · Greek Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in French · French Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Zaza · Turkish Wiktionary: Mehmed

Explore all 10 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Mehmed” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q12796324.

All pronunciation details (5)

\mɛ.mɛd\ — French
/mehˈmed/ — Turkish
\mehˈmed\ — Turkish
[ˌmɛˣmɛd] — Bosnian
/měhmed/ — Serbo-Croatian

02 / Across borders

Where Mehmed is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

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Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Mehmed’s connections around the world.

9 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 15 boys (rank 5861). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 22 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Austria

1984–2025 Spelling: Mehmed

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2024: 2; births; Rank #1,263
Peak year: 2017; 8 births

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Source: Statistik Austria · Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)

No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). National counts are computed by NameStoria as the sum of the published district rows plus the GEH row for the same name/sex/year (the file has no national total row); see notes for the overlap check.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Mehmed in Austria, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	1	674	observed
1999	1	697	observed
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	1	797	observed
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	1	956	observed
2004	2	722	observed
2005	4	510	observed
2006	2	782	observed
2007	1	1,121	observed
2008	2	788	observed
2009	1	1,106	observed
2010	3	809	observed
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	2	1,021	observed
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	4	711	observed
2015	4	771	observed
2016	6	610	observed
2017	8	515	observed
2018	7	553	observed
2019	5	719	observed
2020	4	809	observed
2021	1	1,741	observed
2022	3	972	observed
2023	2	1,229	observed
2024	2	1,263	observed
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Mehmed” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Metadata page, verbatim: « Erste Vornamen Neugeborener nach Geburtsjahr, Geschlecht und politischem Bezirk ab 1984: 1984 bis 2009 nur Babys mit österreichischer Staatsbürgerschaft; ab 2010 alle Babys. Die regionale Zuordnung zum politischen Bezirk erfolgt nach dem Wohnort der Mutter zum Zeitpunkt der Geburt. » English title on the page: « First names by year of birth, sex and administrative district: 1984-2009 only babys with austrian nationality; from 2010 onwards all babys. » Attribute F-ANZAHL_LGEB: « Anzahl Lebendgeborene » (number of live births).
Rounding: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). National counts are computed by NameStoria as the sum of the published district rows plus the GEH row for the same name/sex/year (the file has no national total row); see notes for the overlap check.
Suppression: Metadata page, verbatim: « Bei Vornamen, die pro Jahr seltener als vier Mal vorkommen, wird nur die Anzahl pro Jahr für Österreich angezeigt. » (« For first names that occur less than four times per year, only the number per year for Austria is displayed. ») These rows carry district code GEH. No name is withheld at national level, so national counts are complete as published.
Ranking: No ranks are published; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex over the national counts.

Released 2026-07-09 · Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

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04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Mehmed II
1432–1481
seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Mehmed VI
1861–1926
36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1918–1922)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Mehmed I
1386–1421
fifth Ottoman Sultan (1413–1421)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Mehmed V
1844–1918
35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1909–1918)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Mehmed IV
1642–1693
19th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1648–1687)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Mehmed with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms9

Wikidata Q12796324CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (en): Muhammad (name)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia (en): MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates10

Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands · Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Mehmed

2 source accounts

Arabic origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “praiseworthy”

From Ottoman Turkish محمد (Mehmed, Mehmet), from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad). Doublet of Muhammad.

Follow the language links in this account

Read from more recent borrowed forms toward older source forms. This is a derivation account, not a dated timeline.

Ottoman Turkish
Arabic

Only explicit language links are shown. The full passage may also discuss word roots, comparisons or uncertain proposals.

Read the cited Wiktionary entry

Sources for this account (7)

Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (en): Muhammad (name)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia (en): MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

Polish Wiktionary accountSource-reportedarab.

arab.

Sources for this account (1)

Polish Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Documented usage

View usage notes (11)

Masculine usage · Wikidata Q12796324
Masculine usage in English · Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Serbo-Croatian · Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Turkish · Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Bosnian · German Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Finnish · Greek Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Albanian · Greek Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in French · French Wiktionary: Mehmed
Masculine usage in Zaza · Turkish Wiktionary: Mehmed

Explore all 10 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Mehmed” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q12796324.

All pronunciation details (5)

\mɛ.mɛd\ — French
/mehˈmed/ — Turkish
\mehˈmed\ — Turkish
[ˌmɛˣmɛd] — Bosnian
/měhmed/ — Serbo-Croatian

Where Mehmed is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Mehmed’s connections around the world.

9 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 15 boys (rank 5861). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 22 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Austria

1984–2025 Spelling: Mehmed

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2024: 2; births; Rank #1,263
Peak year: 2017; 8 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Statistik Austria · Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Mehmed in Austria, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	1	674	observed
1999	1	697	observed
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	1	797	observed
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	1	956	observed
2004	2	722	observed
2005	4	510	observed
2006	2	782	observed
2007	1	1,121	observed
2008	2	788	observed
2009	1	1,106	observed
2010	3	809	observed
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	2	1,021	observed
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	4	711	observed
2015	4	771	observed
2016	6	610	observed
2017	8	515	observed
2018	7	553	observed
2019	5	719	observed
2020	4	809	observed
2021	1	1,741	observed
2022	3	972	observed
2023	2	1,229	observed
2024	2	1,263	observed
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Metadata page, verbatim: « Erste Vornamen Neugeborener nach Geburtsjahr, Geschlecht und politischem Bezirk ab 1984: 1984 bis 2009 nur Babys mit österreichischer Staatsbürgerschaft; ab 2010 alle Babys. Die regionale Zuordnung zum politischen Bezirk erfolgt nach dem Wohnort der Mutter zum Zeitpunkt der Geburt. » English title on the page: « First names by year of birth, sex and administrative district: 1984-2009 only babys with austrian nationality; from 2010 onwards all babys. » Attribute F-ANZAHL_LGEB: « Anzahl Lebendgeborene » (number of live births).
Rounding: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). National counts are computed by NameStoria as the sum of the published district rows plus the GEH row for the same name/sex/year (the file has no national total row); see notes for the overlap check.
Suppression: Metadata page, verbatim: « Bei Vornamen, die pro Jahr seltener als vier Mal vorkommen, wird nur die Anzahl pro Jahr für Österreich angezeigt. » (« For first names that occur less than four times per year, only the number per year for Austria is displayed. ») These rows carry district code GEH. No name is withheld at national level, so national counts are complete as published.
Ranking: No ranks are published; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex over the national counts.

Released 2026-07-09 · Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Mehmed II
1432–1481
seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Mehmed VI
1861–1926
36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1918–1922)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Mehmed I
1386–1421
fifth Ottoman Sultan (1413–1421)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Mehmed V
1844–1918
35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1909–1918)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Mehmed IV
1642–1693
19th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1648–1687)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms9

Wikidata Q12796324CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (en): Muhammad (name)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia (en): MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: MehmedCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates10

Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands · Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Mehmed

Arabic origin

Where Mehmed is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Austria

History

Notable bearers

Mehmed II

Mehmed VI

Mehmed I

Mehmed V

Mehmed IV

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Mehmed

Arabic origin

Where Mehmed is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Austria

History

Notable bearers

Mehmed II

Mehmed VI

Mehmed I

Mehmed V

Mehmed IV

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page