Meaning not yet researched.
Ahmad: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 407 in 2025. Its best rank was #386 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #386 in 2001; #669 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ahmad in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#669 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #386.
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Ahmad: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 407 boys in 2025. Peak: #386 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 662 (2001).
In 2025, 407 US boys were named Ahmad, making it the 669th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1 place from #668 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 411 boys named Ahmad in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #386, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 662. For comparison, it was #565 in 2015 and #3,691 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ahmad in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 5 babies. In all, 20,366 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,387 babies named Ahmad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,365 US boys were named Ahmad; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 502. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,197 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ahmad ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #345 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ahmed (17,282 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ahmet, Ahmaad and Amad are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ahmet (660), Ahmaad (458), Amad (359), Ahmaud (311), Ahmod (260), Amahd (109), Amed (98), Amaad (72), Ahamed (63), Ahamad (41), Amaud (38), Amod (26), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ahmad in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 25 | #345 | #391 |
| Illinois | 31 | #345 | #422 |
| Maryland | 13 | #389 | #637 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #401 | #231 |
| Virginia | 19 | #408 | #304 |
| New Jersey | 19 | #412 | #343 |
| New York | 40 | #424 | #450 |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #490 | #403 |
| Ohio | 18 | #555 | #596 |
| Kansas | 5 | #590 | #514 |
| Georgia | 16 | #626 | #399 |
| California | 43 | #643 | #655 |
| Missouri | 8 | #649 | #612 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #674 | #497 |
| Texas | 43 | #677 | #548 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #718 | #368 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #718 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #744 | #401 |
| Colorado | 5 | #851 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,480 | #577 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 407 | #669 |
| 2024 | — | — | 411 | #668 |
| 2023 | — | — | 393 | #685 |
| 2022 | — | — | 437 | #634 |
| 2021 | — | — | 385 | #689 |
| 2020 | — | — | 429 | #625 |
| 2019 | — | — | 454 | #602 |
| 2018 | — | — | 502 | #552 |
| 2017 | — | — | 481 | #564 |
| 2016 | — | — | 466 | #588 |
| 2015 | — | — | 498 | #565 |
| 2014 | — | — | 490 | #567 |
| 2013 | — | — | 458 | #569 |
| 2012 | — | — | 444 | #579 |
| 2011 | — | — | 426 | #588 |
| 2010 | — | — | 494 | #523 |
| 2009 | — | — | 567 | #482 |
| 2008 | — | — | 465 | #560 |
| 2007 | — | — | 462 | #558 |
| 2006 | — | — | 487 | #524 |
| 2005 | — | — | 542 | #467 |
| 2004 | — | — | 508 | #487 |
| 2003 | — | — | 542 | #465 |
| 2002 | — | — | 626 | #404 |
| 2001 | — | — | 662 | #386 |
| 2000 | — | — | 526 | #454 |
| 1999 | — | — | 562 | #419 |
| 1998 | — | — | 608 | #402 |
| 1997 | — | — | 378 | #529 |
| 1996 | — | — | 390 | #519 |
| 1995 | — | — | 347 | #546 |
| 1994 | — | — | 367 | #535 |
| 1993 | — | — | 342 | #548 |
| 1992 | — | — | 309 | #580 |
| 1991 | — | — | 293 | #594 |
| 1990 | — | — | 327 | #560 |
| 1989 | — | — | 315 | #545 |
| 1988 | — | — | 241 | #605 |
| 1987 | — | — | 284 | #540 |
| 1986 | — | — | 248 | #564 |
| 1985 | — | — | 190 | #638 |
| 1984 | — | — | 166 | #673 |
| 1983 | — | — | 179 | #641 |
| 1982 | — | — | 208 | #596 |
| 1981 | — | — | 245 | #535 |
| 1980 | — | — | 238 | #556 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,021 | 286 | #491 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,571 | 204 | #590 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,452 | 207 | #584 |
| 1976 | — | — | 121 | #755 |
| 1975 | — | — | 135 | #712 |
| 1974 | — | — | 111 | #767 |
| 1973 | — | — | 53 | #1,123 |
| 1972 | — | — | 58 | #1,060 |
| 1971 | — | — | 64 | #1,014 |
| 1970 | — | — | 48 | #1,192 |
| 1969 | — | — | 26 | #1,605 |
| 1968 | — | — | 29 | #1,455 |
| 1967 | — | — | 22 | #1,653 |
| 1966 | — | — | 16 | #1,964 |
| 1965 | — | — | 21 | #1,721 |
| 1964 | — | — | 15 | #2,114 |
| 1963 | — | — | 13 | #2,300 |
| 1962 | — | — | 21 | #1,757 |
| 1961 | — | — | 21 | #1,778 |
| 1960 | — | — | 21 | #1,772 |
| 1959 | — | — | 16 | #2,034 |
| 1958 | — | — | 11 | #2,506 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,553 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #3,946 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,202 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,144 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,691 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).