Name profile

Ahmed

This name is a variant of Ahmad.

PronunciationTurkish /ah.ˈmed/; Arabic /ˈʔaħ.mad/; Urdu /ˈəɦ.məd̪/
Usage languagesArabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Dhivehi, Dutch, Ottoman Turkish, Pashto, Turkish, Urdu
US rank (2025)#703

Meaning and history

Ahmed is a variant of Ahmad and was borne by three Ottoman sultans.

Popularity over timeUS births · boys
20062006: 443 births, rank #565
2007: 448 births, rank #573
2008: 443 births, rank #579
2009: 446 births, rank #586
2010: 476 births, rank #537
20112011: 477 births, rank #534
2012: 540 births, rank #495
2013: 510 births, rank #521
2014: 501 births, rank #548
2015: 590 births, rank #496
20162016: 582 births, rank #515
2017: 558 births, rank #518
2018: 523 births, rank #536
2019: 462 births, rank #598
2020: 423 births, rank #634
20212021: 397 births, rank #675
2022: 410 births, rank #666
2023: 419 births, rank #652
2024: 394 births, rank #690
20252025: 382 births, rank #703

Ahmed moved from #690 to #703 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2015, with 590 births.