"Variant of Muhammad"
The name Mohamud is commonly a male name from the "Arabic" origin.
Mohamud is the Somali form of the Arabic name Muhammad, and it is one of the usual spellings of that name among Somali speakers, alongside Maxamuud in the Somali Latin orthography. It is the same name as Mohamed and Mohammad, written to match Somali pronunciation and spelling habits, in which the Arabic letter ha is written as h and the vowel pattern differs from the Arabic and English forms.
Muhammad means "Praised".
The pronunciation of Mohamud is moh-HAH-mood.
