Where the spelling 무하마드 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 무하마드 for Muhammad.
People in the list with this given name:
- 알리, 무하마드 — Ali, Muhammad
Sound by sound
Mu무ha하mma마d드
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
- The official list spells Muhammad as 무하마드, although the general rule gives 무하머드.
Other possible spellings
무함마드Muhammadeu · NIKL spelling of the Arabic name
What Muhammad means
Muhammad by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 874, 18,620 babies (0% girls, 100% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 무하마드: 1.
Korean names for Muhammad
These are the converter’s results for Muhammad 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.
이은우Lee EunuBoy’s name · 51% sound match
이노아Lee NoaBoy’s name · 51% sound match
이도하Lee DohaBoy’s name · 47% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 이, 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