Ahmed

#703 for boys in 2025, 382 births

Peak · boys
2000 · 476 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
17,282
since 1929

Ahmed over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Ahmed has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201980peak #490, 2000boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#703382
2024#690394
2023#652419
2022#666410
2021#675397
2020#634423
2019#598462
2018#536523
2017#518558
2016#515582
2015#496590
2014#548501
2013#521510
2012#495540
2011#534477
2010#537476
2009#586446
2008#579443
2007#573448
2006#565443
2005#560424
2004#525454
2003#537429
2002#508448
2001#492466
2000#490476
1999#522406
1998#594314
1997#605292
1996#570319
1995#677243
1994#641264
1993#637263
1992#724203
1991#725195
1990#710204
1989#713191
1988#669200
1987#772142
1986#771138
1985#792126
1984#719147
1983#772127
1982#732141
1981#813116
1980#850108
1979#864101
1978#89193
1977#1,03669
1976#96974
1975#1,06561
1974#92377
1973#1,05459
1972#1,10754
1971#1,19947
1970#1,29741
1969#1,32636
1968#1,42830
1967#1,31233
1966#1,61323
1965#1,77420
1964#1,58125
1963#2,41412
1962#2,36412
1961#1,94818
1960#2,42312
1959#2,8219
1958#3,9445
1957#2,63110
1956#2,9698
1955#2,55810
1954#3,8275
1953#3,4256
1952#2,25112
1951#2,49510
1950#3,6815
1949#3,2986
1948#3,3166
1947#2,8628
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1942#3,2126
1941#3,5055
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1929#3,5596
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First appearance
1929

The first year at least five boys were named Ahmed! It came in at #3,559, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1930–1935, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Ahmed
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 13 spots since 2024 (#690#703)
  • 69 spots since 2020 (#634#703)
  • 207 spots since 2015 (#496#703)
  • Biggest jump: 145 spots in 1978 (#1,036#891)
  • Biggest drop: 142 spots in 1975 (#923#1,065)
Rise & fade · boys
71 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1929
  • Peaked 2000 at #490 (476 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 50 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 50 yrs · run 1978–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,249
  • Highest: 1 in 3,249 boys born in 2015 were named Ahmed (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 4,471 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
  • Its best rank, #490 in 2000, was only 1 in 4,126 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 30.2% of all boys named Ahmed (5,219) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s6#3,559 (1929)#3,559
1930s8#2,629 (1936)#2,629
1940s31#2,862 (1947)#3,239
1950s80#2,251 (1952)#3,060
1960s221#1,312 (1967)#1,818
1970s676#864 (1979)#1,041
1980s1,436#669 (1988)#760
1990s2,703#522 (1999)#641
2000s4,477#490 (2000)#542
2010s5,219#495 (2012)#530
2020s2,425#634 (2020)#670

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.

Ahmed in 1980

boys
#850
108 births · 1 in 16,518 boys

Top boys' names in 1980

  1. #1Michael68,683
  2. #2Christopher49,079
  3. #3Jason48,164
  4. #4David41,891
  5. #5James39,312
  6. #6Matthew37,834
  7. #7Joshua36,052
  8. #8John35,274
  9. #9Robert34,266
  10. #10Joseph30,185
  11. #850Ahmed108
More about 1980

boys

1,783,951 boys got a published name in 1980; 1 in 16,518 of them was named Ahmed, which outranked 88.3% of the 7,293 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ahmed
  1. #847Al109
  2. #847Paris109
  3. #847Ramsey109
  4. #850Ahmed108
  5. #850August108
  6. #850Cortez108
  7. #850Cristian108
  8. #856Chadrick107
  9. #856Emmett107
  10. #856German107

Tied with 5 names at #850; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1979
Risers
  1. 381Gideon#1,370#989
  2. 296Bo#864#568
  3. 270Anson#1,137#867
  4. 266Dustan#1,255#989
  5. 255Dusty#614#359
Fallers
  1. 366Harris#991#1,357
  2. 362Tracey#842#1,204
  3. 331Jevon#780#1,111
  4. 321Kennith#937#1,258
  5. 267Levar#644#911

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1980