Ahmed
The boy's name Ahmed has been in the national records since 1929, with 17,282 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 703rd. About 17,000 Ahmeds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Ahmed
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 17,282
- Estimated living today
- 17,000
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2015
- Best rank
- 496th
- Rank in 2025
- 703rd
- First recorded
- 1929
How old the living Ahmeds are
born that year still alive today
Of the 17,282 babies given the name since 1929, about 17,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 8,500 of them are children and 80 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 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
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ahmeds
- Ahmed al-Sharaa (born 1982)President of Syria since 2025
- Ahmed Zewail (1946–2016)Egyptian chemist
- Ahmed Shahe Durrani (1722–1772)founder of the Afghan Durrani Empire (r. 1747–1772)
- Ahmed I (1590–1617)14th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Ahmed III (1673–1736)23th Sultan of Ottoman Empire
- Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922–1984)President of Guinea
- Ahmed II (1643–1695)21th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Ahmed Musa (born 1992)Nigerian association football player
People named Ahmed with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ahmed is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ahmed is most concentrated in Minnesota (3.1×), New York (2.4×), New Jersey (2.4×), Michigan (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2015
The most popular boys’ names the year Ahmed peaked:
Ahmed elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Ahmed | 23,535 | 141st |
| England and Wales boys | Ahmed | 8,394 | 157th |
| Italy boys | Ahmed | 3,406 | — |
| Norway boys | Ahmed | 3,018 | 89th |
| Belgium boys | Ahmed | 2,038 | 130th |
| Switzerland boys | Ahmed | 509 | 213th |
| Ireland boys | Ahmed | 401 | 241st |
| Scotland boys | Ahmed | 361 | 264th |
| Sweden boys | Ahmed | 342 | 81st |
| Poland boys | Ahmed | 97 birth registrations | 231st |
| Northern Ireland boys | Ahmed | 47 | 270th |
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.
Ahmed: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Ahmed | 326 | 0.026% | 213th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Ahmed | 175 | 0.040% | 164th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Ahmed | 8 | 0.012% | 180th |
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, Ahmed is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.06% of children were given it – 65 of them.
Ahmed: rank by region
In 2025, Ahmed was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ahmed | 127 | 46 |
| Wallonia | Ahmed | 235 | 12 |
| Brussels | Ahmed | 35 | 22 |
In 2025, Ahmed was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Ahmed | 312 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ahmed appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (35th), Province of Antwerp (79th), Province of Flemish Brabant (132nd), Province of Liège (133rd), Province of West Flanders (162nd) and Province of East Flanders (179th).
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.
Ahmed by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 114 | 165th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ahmed 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Ahmed | 1,821 | 2,822 |
| Finland boys | Ahmed | 1,193 | 2,684 |
| Finland girls | Ahmed | — | 1,017 |
| the Netherlands girls | Ahmed | — | 364 |
Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,017 who carry it, fewer than five go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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 Ahmed lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 27,516 men called Ahmed 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 | Ahmed | 551 | 13.073 | 5 |
| Melilla | Ahmed | 467 | 10.670 | 4 |
| Almería | Ahmed | 1,348 | 3.427 | 51 |
| Lleida | Ahmed | 665 | 2.824 | 70 |
| Murcia | Ahmed | 2,243 | 2.822 | 65 |
| Tarragona | Ahmed | 1,236 | 2.820 | 71 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ahmed 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.