Ahmed

Where Ahmed comes from

Borrowed from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ahmed
  • Arabic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1929
    First appearance
    #3,559 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1946
    Ahmed Zewail born
    Egyptian chemist
  3. 1982
    Ahmed al-Sharaa born
    President of Syria since 2025
  4. 2000
    Peak, #490
    476 babies named Ahmed — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic, variant of Ahmad.
Namesakes
  • Ahmed al-Sharaa · President of Syria since 2025, born 1982
  • Ahmed Zewail · Egyptian chemist, 1946–2016
  • Ahmed Shahe Durrani · founder of the Afghan Durrani Empire (r. 1747–1772), 1722–1772
  • Ahmed I · 14th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 1590–1617
  • Ahmed III · 23th Sultan of Ottoman Empire, 1673–1736

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.