Ahmad — #669 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ahmad

The Social Security Administration has registered 19,936 babies named Ahmad between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ahmad currently holds the #669 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 662 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ahmad performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 5,387 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Ahmad shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,947 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Ahmad in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ahmad in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 19,936 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.