Ahmed
Ahmed was given to 382 boys in 2025, #703 among boys’ names; 17,282 Americans have been recorded with it since 1929 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,800 Americans named Ahmed and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ahmed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ahmed mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ahmed is “a male given name from Arabic, variant of Ahmad.”
Borrowed from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad).
/ˈɑːmɛd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ahmed?
#703 among boys’ names, 2025
Ahmed fell from #496 in 2015 to #703 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.31 to 0.22 per 1,000.
590 babies in 2015, the peak
Ahmed peaked in 2015, when 590 boys were given it, #496 among boys’ names. The 382 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 382 | #703 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 394 | #690 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 419 | #652 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 410 | #666 | 0.23 |
| 2021 | 397 | #675 | 0.23 |
| 2020 | 423 | #634 | 0.25 |
| 2019 | 462 | #598 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 523 | #536 | 0.29 |
| 2017 | 558 | #518 | 0.30 |
| 2016 | 582 | #515 | 0.31 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 590 | #496 | 0.31 |
| 2014 | 501 | #548 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 510 | #521 | 0.27 |
| 2012 | 540 | #495 | 0.28 |
| 2011 | 477 | #534 | 0.25 |
| 2010 | 476 | #537 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 446 | #586 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 443 | #579 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 448 | #573 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 443 | #565 | 0.22 |
| 2005 | 424 | #560 | 0.21 |
| 2004 | 454 | #525 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 429 | #537 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 448 | #508 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 466 | #492 | 0.24 |
| 2000 | 476 | #490 | 0.24 |
| 1999 | 406 | #522 | 0.21 |
| 1998 | 314 | #594 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 292 | #605 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 319 | #570 | 0.17 |
| 1995 | 243 | #674 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 264 | #640 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 263 | #636 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 203 | #722 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 195 | #721 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 204 | #707 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 191 | #710 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 200 | #669 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 142 | #772 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 138 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 126 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 147 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 127 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 141 | #732 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 116 | #813 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 108 | #850 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 101 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 93 | #891 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,036 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 74 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,065 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 77 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,107 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 41 | #1,296 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 36 | #1,326 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 30 | #1,427 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 33 | #1,311 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 23 | #1,612 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 20 | #1,773 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 25 | #1,580 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,415 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,364 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,947 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,423 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,822 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #3,950 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,631 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #2,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,559 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,832 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,426 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,495 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,301 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,319 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,865 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,218 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,508 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,630 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,561 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ahmed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ahmed has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ahmed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ahmed, and how old are they?
16,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 17,282 Americans ever recorded as Ahmed. The median Ahmed alive today is 18 years old; half are between 10 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 37,887 people named Ahmed (127 women and girls, 37,760 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,633 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 125 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 830 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,880 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,110 |
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 Ahmed born?
The states with the most babies named Ahmed are New York, Minnesota and Texas, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 66 | #282 | 2.5× |
| Minnesota | 29 | #218 | 2.7× |
| Texas | 26 | #937 | 0.6× |
| California | 25 | #907 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 22 | #470 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 20 | #420 | 2.3× |
| Georgia | 14 | #673 | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 14 | #364 | 1.2× |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #413 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 12 | #577 | 0.8× |
Where Ahmed is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ahmed is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1929 it was given 2.7 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 boys’ 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 Ahmed 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,197 babies since 1880, Ahmed is the second most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 382 of their 789 babies (48%), again the second 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 Ahmed
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 Ahmed and names like it
- Compare Ahmed and AhmadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAhmed peaked in 2015.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ahmed since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Ahmed.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ahmed alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.