Ahmaud
Ahmaud was last recorded in 2024, when 14 babies were given it; 311 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 Ahmaud by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ahmaud mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ahmaud is “a male given name from Arabic, variant of Ahmad.” Its etymology gives the sense “to thank or to praise” (حَمِدَ).
Apparently a variant of Ahmad, from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “to thank or to praise”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ahmaud?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,204, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 2022, the peak
Ahmaud peaked in 2022, when 27 boys were given it, #3,995 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14 | #6,204 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,251 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 27 | #3,995 | 15.5 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,628 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,140 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,407 | 7.2 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,327 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,161 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,675 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,484 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #9,615 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,485 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,235 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,196 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,604 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,692 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,640 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,946 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,556 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,653 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,119 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,424 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,655 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,320 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,134 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ahmaud a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ahmaud has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ahmaud: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ahmaud, and how old are they?
An estimated 307 Americans named Ahmaud and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 5 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 198 people named Ahmaud (6 women and girls, 192 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 211 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,217 babies since 1880, Ahmaud is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 789 babies recorded by SSA was a Ahmaud (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 Ahmaud
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 Ahmaud and names like it
- Compare Ahmaud and AhmadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAhmaud peaked in 2022.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ahmaud since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Ahmaud.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ahmaud alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.