Ahmad

Where Ahmad comes from

Borrowed from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), elative of حَمِيد (ḥamīd, “praiseworthy”); or from Persian اَحْمَد (ahmad).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ahmad
  • Arabic
  • Persian
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 780
    Ahmad ibn Hanbal born
    Muslim jurist and theologian
  2. 1937
    Ahmad Yasin born
    Palestinian political and religious leader
  3. 1950
    First appearance
    #3,681 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2001
    Peak, #386
    662 babies named Ahmad — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic or Persian, meaning “most praiseworthy”; variant forms Aahmed, Achmad, Achmat, Achmed, Achmet, Ahamed, Ahmed, Ahmet.
Namesakes
  • Ahmad ibn Hanbal · Muslim jurist and theologian, 780–855
  • Ahmad Yasin · Palestinian political and religious leader, 1937–2004
  • Ahmad ibn Fadlan · 10th-century Arab traveller and ethnographer, born 879
  • Ahmad Shah Qajar · The seventh and last Shah of Iran Qajar, 1898–1930
  • Ahmad Shamloo · Iranian Persian poet, writer, and journalist, 1925–2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.