Ahad
Ahad was given to 43 boys in 2025, #2,885 among boys’ names; 879 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ahad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ahad?
#2,885 among boys’ names, 2025
Ahad rose from #3,778 in 2015 to #2,885 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 25.2 per million.
81 babies in 2020, the peak
Ahad peaked in 2020, when 81 boys were given it, #1,833 among boys’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #2,885 | 25.2 |
| 2024 | 46 | #2,790 | 26.7 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,228 | 21.6 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,003 | 23.5 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,373 | 32.6 |
| 2020 | 81 | #1,833 | 46.9 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,188 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,104 | 20.4 |
| 2017 | 43 | #2,798 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,780 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,778 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,866 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 18 | #4,984 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,719 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,436 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,484 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,751 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,767 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,603 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,462 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,707 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,634 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,185 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,701 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,299 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 11 | #5,921 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,700 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,471 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,258 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,880 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,503 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,376 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,767 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,868 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,280 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,188 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,733 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ahad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ahad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ahad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ahad, and how old are they?
An estimated 868 Americans named Ahad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 787 people named Ahad (32 women and girls, 755 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 588 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,213 babies since 1880, Ahad is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 52 babies (83%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ahad
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ahad and names like it
- Compare Ahad and AyadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Ahad.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ahad alive today were born 2013-2025.
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