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When people name their sons, they want to give them the name of someone they really admire and love, someone of a role model for them, and for the Muslims around the world, there is no one that they love and respect more than Prophet Muhammad, and when they think of a name for their sons, the name Muhammad comes to their minds,

Muhammad is the prophet of Islam, he was born in Mecca around the year 570, before he received revelations from God at the age forty, he was known as an honest and sincere man, when he began to preach Islam which promoted peace and equity among human beings, stating that only the deeds of a person matters, not his race nor his powers or ancestors, and that people should worship one god, a lot of people followed him, but he also infuriated the people who worshipped a group of gods and thought that this religion would make them lose their position as the greatest of the tribes, he and his followers were prosecuted and tortured by the unbelievers, but as Mecca was a central trading city a lot of tribes did come and go there, he was able to spread the Islamic faith to other tribes and towns and he emigrated with his followers to the city of Yathrib (now known as al-madina) and after few years when Islam became stronger, he was able to return to Mecca and enter the city again without a drop of blood

And from these days the Islamic civilization flourished with the Islamic faith as its basis, it contributed to different sciences and literature and Islam reached the Far East in China and West in Spain.

Muslims are ordered to follow Prophet Muhammad in his ways, to be just and merciful and sincere as he were, and take the holy Quran which was sent & revealed to him from God through angel Gabriel along with the Sunna (the saying and deeds of prophet Muhammad) as the sources of Islamic faith

Muhammad is written in only one way in Arabic but as any foreign word it could be written in several ways in English, like mahammad, Mohamad etc... But the most common ways to spell it are Muhammad and Mohamed, the meaning of the name is praised, thanked or graced.

As Islam is a religion and way of life that is practiced by more than 1.3 billion people around the world, not only in Arabic countries but also in a lot of African & Asian countries, like Indonesia and Malaysia, and a lot of Muslims name their sons Muhammad and also a lot of people who convert to Islam change their names to Muhammad (like Muhammad Ali), Muhammad became the most common name in the world.

In Arabic and Islamic countries the name is very popular, it is so close to impossible to enter a school class or a company and not find someone with this name, and people would refer to and call someone with the name Muhammad by his family name, because if you said to someone "I was with Muhammad yesterday", he would normally reply "which one?"

In European & American countries and also in Australia, the name Muhammad is becoming popular with the growing number of Muslims there. The population in a lot of European countries is declining to the point that governments pay them to have children, but on the other side Muslims believe in family and marriage, and as a lot of Muslims move there to work, their numbers are increasing.

In England there is a lot of native British Muslims along with Immigrants from Africa and Asia, and the name Muhammad is becoming very popular there, it is becoming one of the most popular baby boy names in England.

A good name is a name that has a good meaning and a good history, and Muhammad is a great name with a great meaning and with a history of a great man who had this name, a man that a lot of people around the world wish to be like him, and think of him as the ultimate role model.

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