Ahmed — #688 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ahmed

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,897 babies named Ahmed between 1929 and 2024, spanning 96 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ahmed currently holds the #688 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 590 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ahmed performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,219 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Ahmed shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 2,724 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Ahmed in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ahmed 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 16,897 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.