Ahmaud

Where Ahmaud comes from

Apparently a variant of Ahmad, from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “to thank or to praise”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ahmaud
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1997
    First appearance
    #8,110 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2022
    Peak, #3,995
    27 babies named Ahmaud — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2025
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic, variant of Ahmad.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.