Ahmad
Last seen for girls in 1979 at #9,010 · #669 for boys in 2025, 407 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 662 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 20,348since 1950
Ahmad over time
Rank among boys' names. Ahmad has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #669 | 407 | |
| 2024 | — | #668 | 411 | |
| 2023 | — | #685 | 393 | |
| 2022 | — | #634 | 437 | |
| 2021 | — | #689 | 385 | |
| 2020 | — | #625 | 429 | |
| 2019 | — | #602 | 454 | |
| 2018 | — | #552 | 502 | |
| 2017 | — | #564 | 481 | |
| 2016 | — | #588 | 466 | |
| 2015 | — | #565 | 498 | |
| 2014 | — | #567 | 490 | |
| 2013 | — | #569 | 458 | |
| 2012 | — | #579 | 444 | |
| 2011 | — | #588 | 426 | |
| 2010 | — | #523 | 494 | |
| 2009 | — | #482 | 567 | |
| 2008 | — | #560 | 465 | |
| 2007 | — | #558 | 462 | |
| 2006 | — | #524 | 487 | |
| 2005 | — | #467 | 542 | |
| 2004 | — | #487 | 508 | |
| 2003 | — | #465 | 542 | |
| 2002 | — | #404 | 626 | |
| 2001 | — | #386 | 662 | |
| 2000 | — | #454 | 526 | |
| 1999 | — | #419 | 562 | |
| 1998 | — | #402 | 608 | |
| 1997 | — | #529 | 378 | |
| 1996 | — | #519 | 390 | |
| 1995 | — | #546 | 347 | |
| 1994 | — | #535 | 367 | |
| 1993 | — | #548 | 342 | |
| 1992 | — | #580 | 309 | |
| 1991 | — | #594 | 293 | |
| 1990 | — | #560 | 327 | |
| 1989 | — | #545 | 315 | |
| 1988 | — | #605 | 241 | |
| 1987 | — | #540 | 284 | |
| 1986 | — | #564 | 248 | |
| 1985 | — | #638 | 190 | |
| 1984 | — | #673 | 166 | |
| 1983 | — | #641 | 179 | |
| 1982 | — | #596 | 208 | |
| 1981 | — | #535 | 245 | |
| 1980 | — | #556 | 238 | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | #491 | 286 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #590 | 204 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #584 | 207 |
| 1976 | — | #755 | 121 | |
| 1975 | — | #712 | 135 | |
| 1974 | — | #767 | 111 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,123 | 53 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,060 | 58 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,014 | 64 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,192 | 48 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,605 | 26 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,455 | 29 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,652 | 22 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,963 | 16 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,720 | 21 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,114 | 15 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,300 | 13 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,757 | 21 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,778 | 21 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,772 | 21 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,033 | 16 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,506 | 11 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ahmad! It came in at #3,681, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1952, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ahmad
- 1 spot since 2024 (#668 → #669)
- 44 spots since 2020 (#625 → #669)
- 104 spots since 2015 (#565 → #669)
- Biggest jump: 356 spots in 1974 (#1,123 → #767)
- Biggest drop: 65 spots in 1980 (#491 → #556)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 2001 at #386 (662 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 52 yrs · run 1974–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,935 boys born in 2001 were named Ahmad (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,197 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 26.5% of all boys named Ahmad (5,387) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 57 | #2,033 (1959) | #3,151 |
| 1960s | 205 | #1,455 (1968) | #1,812 |
| 1970s | 1,287 | #491 (1979) | #829 |
| 1980s | 2,314 | #535 (1981) | #589 |
| 1990s | 3,923 | #402 (1998) | #523 |
| 2000s | 5,387 | #386 (2001) | #479 |
| 2010s | 4,713 | #523 (2010) | #570 |
| 2020s | 2,462 | #625 (2020) | #662 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ahmad in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 267,545 of them was named Ahmad, which outranked 24.7% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,061Yuko7
- #8,061Zenovia7
- #8,061Zonia7
- #9,010Ahmad6
- #9,010Aarica6
- #9,010Aba6
- #9,010Abel6
- #10,210Abeer5
- #10,210Abria5
- #10,210Adah5
Tied with 1,199 names at #9,010; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 6,019 of them was named Ahmad, which outranked 93.1% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).