Ahmad
Ahmad reached its high-water mark in 2001 at number 386, and has been recorded 20,366 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 669th. About 20,000 Ahmads are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ahmad boys named Ahmad
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 20,366
- Estimated living today
- 20,000
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 386th
- Rank in 2025
- 669th
- First recorded
- 1950
- Girls / boys
- 18 / 20,348
How old the living Ahmads are
born that year still alive today
Of the 20,366 babies given the name since 1950, about 20,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 8,100 of them are children and 60 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic, Persian
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ahmads
- Ahmad ibn Billah (1916–2012)President of Algeria from 1963 to 1965
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780–855)Muslim jurist and theologian
- Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953–2001)Tajik military leader
- Ahmad Yasin (1937–2004)Palestinian political and religious leader
- Ahmad ibn Fadlan (879–922)10th-century Arab traveller and ethnographer
- Ahmad Shah Qajar (1898–1930)The seventh and last Shah of Iran Qajar
- Ahmad Sanjar (1086–1157)Seljuk sultan
- Ahmad Shamloo (1925–2000)Iranian Persian poet, writer, and journalist
People named Ahmad with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ahmad is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ahmad is most concentrated in New Jersey (2.4×), Louisiana (2.1×), Maryland (1.9×), Georgia (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular boys’ names the year Ahmad peaked:
Ahmad elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Ahmad | 4,150 | 218th |
| Norway boys | Ahmad | 2,115 | 121st |
| France boys | Ahmad | 1,595 | 420th |
| Belgium boys | Ahmad | 544 | 233rd |
| Italy boys | Ahmad | 534 | — |
| Scotland boys | Ahmad | 250 | 267th |
| Ireland boys | Ahmad | 183 | 288th |
| Switzerland boys | Ahmad | 166 | 436th |
| Poland boys | Ahmad | 38 birth registrations | 319th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Ahmad | 11 | 235th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ahmad: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Ahmad | 110 | 0.009% | 432nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Ahmad | 52 | 0.012% | 333rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Ahmad | 4 | 0.006% | 179th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Ahmad is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 38 of them.
Ahmad: rank by region
In 2025, Ahmad was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ahmad | 220 | 27 |
| Wallonia | Ahmad | 394 | 6 |
| Brussels | Ahmad | 68 | 14 |
In 2025, Ahmad was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Ahmad | 312 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ahmad appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (68th), Province of East Flanders (153rd), Province of West Flanders (162nd) and Province of Antwerp (251st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ahmad by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 291 | 71st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ahmad among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ahmad | 498 | 802 |
| Finland girls | Ahmad | — | 85 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Ahmad lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,662 men called Ahmad were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Ahmad | 23 | 0.546 | 256 |
| Barcelona | Ahmad | 434 | 0.149 | 492 |
| Melilla | Ahmad | 6 | 0.137 | 651 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Ahmad | 38 | 0.122 | 645 |
| Tarragona | Ahmad | 53 | 0.121 | 665 |
| Lleida | Ahmad | 24 | 0.102 | 777 |
Listed in 39 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 13 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ahmad against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.