Where the spelling 모하메드 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 모하메드 for Mohamed.
People in the list with this given name:
- 밤바, 모하메드 — Mohamed Bamba
Sound by sound
Mo모ha하me메d드
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
Other possible spellings
무함마드Muhammadeu · NIKL spelling of the Arabic name
What Mohamed means
“praised”
Recorded in Wiktionary for Muhammad, of which Mohamed is a spelling variant.
From Arabic مُحَمَّد
Source: Wiktionary — Muhammad · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mohamed by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 1,028, 15,035 babies (0% girls, 100% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 모하메드: 1.
Korean names for Mohamed
These are the converter’s results for Mohamed as a boy’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).
Sounds like mine
Closest in sound among real Korean names.
박노아Park NoaBoy’s name · 58% sound match
박도하Park DohaBoy’s name · 53% sound match
박하민Park HaminBoy’s name · 50% sound match하 河 river민 珉 stone resembling jade
No surname given, so we picked 박, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Similar names
Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics