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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Ahmad is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Delaware#208 · 1 in 688
- Louisiana#283 · 1 in 1,193
- Pennsylvania#315 · 1 in 1,663
- Michigan#319 · 1 in 1,547
- Virginia#331 · 1 in 1,698
Best ever in a state: #122 in District of Columbia, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | #208 | 5 | 1 in 688 |
| Louisiana | #283 | 20 | 1 in 1,193 |
| Pennsylvania | #315 | 35 | 1 in 1,663 |
| Michigan | #319 | 30 | 1 in 1,547 |
| Virginia | #331 | 24 | 1 in 1,698 |
| Illinois | #374 | 31 | 1 in 1,998 |
| Georgia | #382 | 28 | 1 in 1,918 |
| Maryland | #460 | 11 | 1 in 2,410 |
| New York | #461 | 35 | 1 in 2,787 |
| Alabama | #471 | 9 | 1 in 2,541 |
| New Jersey | #504 | 13 | 1 in 3,143 |
| North Carolina | #504 | 17 | 1 in 3,019 |
| Florida | #510 | 31 | 1 in 3,118 |
| Tennessee | #511 | 12 | 1 in 3,022 |
| Kentucky | #564 | 6 | 1 in 3,606 |
| Ohio | #569 | 16 | 1 in 3,647 |
| California | #611 | 49 | 1 in 4,402 |
| Missouri | #622 | 8 | 1 in 3,825 |
| Massachusetts | #623 | 6 | 1 in 4,803 |
| South Carolina | #671 | 5 | 1 in 4,200 |
| Minnesota | #699 | 6 | 1 in 4,512 |
| Texas | #700 | 34 | 1 in 5,181 |
| Washington | #768 | 7 | 1 in 5,079 |
| Indiana | #915 | 5 | 1 in 6,890 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 3,848 of them was named Ahmad, which outranked 96.0% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).