Ahmadou
Ahmadou was last recorded in 2024, when 13 babies were given it; 175 Americans have been recorded with it between 1997 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ahmadou by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ahmadou?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,467, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 2024, the peak
Ahmadou peaked in 2024, when 13 boys were given it, #6,467 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13 | #6,467 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,898 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,000 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,181 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,760 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,786 | 6.7 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,559 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,690 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,073 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,142 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #9,674 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,316 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,598 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,313 | 4.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,951 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,500 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,154 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,659 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,463 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,573 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,285 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ahmadou a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ahmadou has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ahmadou: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ahmadou, and how old are they?
An estimated 173 Americans named Ahmadou and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 230 people named Ahmadou (4 women and girls, 226 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Ahmadou?
Ahmadou is a less common spelling of Amadou: SSA has recorded 175 Ahmadou and 1,217 Amadou since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,276 babies since 1880, Ahmadou is the third most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 216 babies recorded by SSA was a Ahmadou (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Ahmadou
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 Ahmadou and names like it
- Compare Ahmadou and AmadouBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAhmadou peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ahmadou since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Ahmadou.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ahmadou alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.