Meaning not yet researched.
Ahmed: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 382 in 2025. Its best rank was #490 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #490 in 2000; #703 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ahmed in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#703 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #490.
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Ahmed: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 382 boys in 2025. Peak: #490 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 590 (2015).
In 2025, 382 US boys were named Ahmed, making it the 703rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 13 places from #690 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 394 boys named Ahmed in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #490, reached in 2000. The most boys given the name in a single year was 590, in 2015. For comparison, it was #496 in 2015 and #3,692 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ahmed in 83 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1929 with 6 babies. In all, 17,282 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,219 babies named Ahmed.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,550 US boys were named Ahmed; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 582. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,471 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ahmed ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #218 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ahmad (20,366 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Ahmed 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 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 29 | #218 | #164 |
| New York | 66 | #282 | #259 |
| Maryland | 14 | #364 | #390 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #413 | #405 |
| Michigan | 20 | #420 | #260 |
| Illinois | 22 | #470 | #450 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #500 | #358 |
| Iowa | 5 | #571 | #563 |
| Colorado | 9 | #571 | #552 |
| Washington | 12 | #577 | #699 |
| Kansas | 5 | #591 | — |
| Virginia | 11 | #628 | #316 |
| Georgia | 14 | #673 | #662 |
| Arizona | 9 | #673 | #560 |
| Missouri | 7 | #709 | #370 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #709 | #309 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #777 | #590 |
| Ohio | 10 | #801 | #353 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #874 | #657 |
| California | 25 | #907 | #649 |
| Texas | 26 | #937 | #577 |
| Indiana | 5 | #950 | #542 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,097 | #532 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,632 | #656 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 382 | #703 |
| 2024 | — | — | 394 | #690 |
| 2023 | — | — | 419 | #652 |
| 2022 | — | — | 410 | #666 |
| 2021 | — | — | 397 | #675 |
| 2020 | — | — | 423 | #634 |
| 2019 | — | — | 462 | #598 |
| 2018 | — | — | 523 | #536 |
| 2017 | — | — | 558 | #518 |
| 2016 | — | — | 582 | #515 |
| 2015 | — | — | 590 | #496 |
| 2014 | — | — | 501 | #548 |
| 2013 | — | — | 510 | #521 |
| 2012 | — | — | 540 | #495 |
| 2011 | — | — | 477 | #534 |
| 2010 | — | — | 476 | #537 |
| 2009 | — | — | 446 | #586 |
| 2008 | — | — | 443 | #579 |
| 2007 | — | — | 448 | #573 |
| 2006 | — | — | 443 | #565 |
| 2005 | — | — | 424 | #560 |
| 2004 | — | — | 454 | #525 |
| 2003 | — | — | 429 | #537 |
| 2002 | — | — | 448 | #508 |
| 2001 | — | — | 466 | #492 |
| 2000 | — | — | 476 | #490 |
| 1999 | — | — | 406 | #522 |
| 1998 | — | — | 314 | #594 |
| 1997 | — | — | 292 | #605 |
| 1996 | — | — | 319 | #570 |
| 1995 | — | — | 243 | #677 |
| 1994 | — | — | 264 | #641 |
| 1993 | — | — | 263 | #637 |
| 1992 | — | — | 203 | #724 |
| 1991 | — | — | 195 | #725 |
| 1990 | — | — | 204 | #710 |
| 1989 | — | — | 191 | #713 |
| 1988 | — | — | 200 | #669 |
| 1987 | — | — | 142 | #772 |
| 1986 | — | — | 138 | #771 |
| 1985 | — | — | 126 | #792 |
| 1984 | — | — | 147 | #719 |
| 1983 | — | — | 127 | #772 |
| 1982 | — | — | 141 | #732 |
| 1981 | — | — | 116 | #813 |
| 1980 | — | — | 108 | #850 |
| 1979 | — | — | 101 | #865 |
| 1978 | — | — | 93 | #891 |
| 1977 | — | — | 69 | #1,036 |
| 1976 | — | — | 74 | #969 |
| 1975 | — | — | 61 | #1,065 |
| 1974 | — | — | 77 | #923 |
| 1973 | — | — | 59 | #1,054 |
| 1972 | — | — | 54 | #1,107 |
| 1971 | — | — | 47 | #1,199 |
| 1970 | — | — | 41 | #1,297 |
| 1969 | — | — | 36 | #1,326 |
| 1968 | — | — | 30 | #1,428 |
| 1967 | — | — | 33 | #1,312 |
| 1966 | — | — | 23 | #1,613 |
| 1965 | — | — | 20 | #1,774 |
| 1964 | — | — | 25 | #1,581 |
| 1963 | — | — | 12 | #2,416 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,365 |
| 1961 | — | — | 18 | #1,948 |
| 1960 | — | — | 12 | #2,424 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #2,823 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #3,951 |
| 1957 | — | — | 10 | #2,632 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #2,971 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,560 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #3,833 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,427 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,251 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,496 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,692 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,302 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,320 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #2,866 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,219 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,509 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,631 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,563 |
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).