Ahmet
Ahmet was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,689 among boys’ names; 660 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ahmet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ahmet mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Ahmet is “a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Ahmad”
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish احمد (ahmed), from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ahmet?
#7,689 among boys’ names, 2025
Ahmet fell from #3,023 in 2015 to #7,689 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.8 to 5.9 per million.
38 babies in 2015, the peak
Ahmet peaked in 2015, when 38 boys were given it, #3,023 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,689 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,662 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,526 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,018 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,341 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,705 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,821 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,549 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,745 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,882 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,023 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,374 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,497 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,390 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,111 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 27 | #3,812 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,036 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,645 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,642 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,073 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,325 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,006 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,852 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,396 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,475 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,917 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,340 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,409 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,099 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 9 | #5,929 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,452 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,231 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,438 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,520 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,416 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,621 | 4.0 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,092 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #5,934 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,071 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,067 | 3.7 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,233 | 3.2 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,562 | 3.4 |
| 1959 | 5 | #3,991 | 2.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ahmet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ahmet has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ahmet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ahmet, and how old are they?
An estimated 647 Americans named Ahmet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,435 people named Ahmet (1 woman or girl, 2,434 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 565 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.3 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,826 babies since 1880, Ahmet is the second most given (17% of them).
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 Ahmet
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 Ahmet and names like it
- Compare Ahmet and AmitBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAhmet peaked in 2015.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ahmet since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Ahmet: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Ahmet.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ahmet alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.