Ahlam
Ahlam was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,356 among girls’ names; 1,074 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Ahlam and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ahlam by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ahlam?
#4,356 among girls’ names, 2025
Ahlam fell from #3,651 in 2015 to #4,356 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.5 to 19.9 per million.
54 babies in 2024, the peak
Ahlam peaked in 2024, when 54 girls were given it, #3,015 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,356 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,015 | 33.3 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,833 | 24.3 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,110 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,091 | 21.3 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,170 | 20.4 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,552 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,002 | 21.2 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,307 | 27.8 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,852 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,651 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,104 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,159 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,049 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,566 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,602 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,813 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,414 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,946 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,128 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,531 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,768 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,577 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,130 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,321 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,789 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,897 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,582 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,870 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,276 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,957 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,122 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 15 | #5,951 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,716 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,646 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,545 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,285 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,595 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,333 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,758 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,032 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,902 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,886 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,374 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,434 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,403 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,062 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,657 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,661 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ahlam a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ahlam has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ahlam: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ahlam, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,074 Americans ever recorded as Ahlam. The median Ahlam alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,122 people named Ahlam (2,106 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 845 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 23 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 209 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 325 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 504 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Ahlam born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 9 | #541 | 8.3× |
Where Ahlam is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ahlam is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1977 it was given 8.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ahlam with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,176 babies since 1880, Ahlam is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 40 babies (80%), 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 Ahlam
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 Ahlam and names like it
- Compare Ahlam and AhlaamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAhlam peaked in 2024.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ahlam since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Ahlam.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ahlam alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.