# Ahmed (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ahmed/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɑːmɛd/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 17,282 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 17,282 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8,394, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 477 | 534 |
| 2012 | 540 | 495 |
| 2013 | 510 | 521 |
| 2014 | 501 | 548 |
| 2015 | 590 | 496 |
| 2016 | 582 | 515 |
| 2017 | 558 | 518 |
| 2018 | 523 | 536 |
| 2019 | 462 | 598 |
| 2020 | 423 | 634 |
| 2021 | 397 | 675 |
| 2022 | 410 | 666 |
| 2023 | 419 | 652 |
| 2024 | 394 | 690 |
| 2025 | 382 | 703 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 320 | 175 |
| 2012 | 377 | 157 |
| 2013 | 345 | 162 |
| 2014 | 306 | 185 |
| 2015 | 320 | 183 |
| 2016 | 338 | 171 |
| 2017 | 321 | 172 |
| 2018 | 284 | 185 |
| 2019 | 246 | 208 |
| 2020 | 245 | 205 |
| 2021 | 254 | 209 |
| 2022 | 238 | 215 |
| 2023 | 256 | 196 |
| 2024 | 292 | 173 |
| 2025 | 300 | 168 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: أَحْمَد
- Armenian: Ահմադ
- Bulgarian: Ахмад, Ахмед
- Chinese: 艾哈邁德 /艾哈迈德
- Finnish: Ahmed
- French: Ahmed
- German: Ahmet, Ahmed, Ahmad
- Greek: Αχμάντ, Αχμέντ
- Hebrew: אחמד
- Hindi: अहमद
- Indonesian: Ahmad
- Japanese: アフマド
- Korean: 아흐마드
- Lithuanian: Ahmadas
- Russian: Ахма́д, Ахме́д
- Turkish: Ahmet

## People named Ahmed

- Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian chemist
- Ahmed I, 14th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1603–1617)
- Ahmed Shahe Durrani, founder of the Afghan Durrani Empire (r. 1747–1772)
- Ahmed III, 23th Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1703–1730)
- Ahmed II, 21th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1691–1695)
- Ahmed Elmohamady, Egyptian association football player
- Ahmed Shawqi, Egyptian poet (1868–1932)
- Ahmed ‘Urabi, Egyptian army officer and revolutionary (1841–1911)
- Ahmed Best, American actor
- Ahmed Hegazi, Egyptian association football player (born 1991)
- Ahmed Shafik, former Prime Minister of Egypt
- Ahmed Aboutaleb, Dutch politician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.