Ahmed
#703 for boys in 2025, 382 births
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 476 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 17,282since 1929
Ahmed over time
Rank among boys' names. Ahmed has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #703 | 382 |
| 2024 | #690 | 394 |
| 2023 | #652 | 419 |
| 2022 | #666 | 410 |
| 2021 | #675 | 397 |
| 2020 | #634 | 423 |
| 2019 | #598 | 462 |
| 2018 | #536 | 523 |
| 2017 | #518 | 558 |
| 2016 | #515 | 582 |
| 2015 | #496 | 590 |
| 2014 | #548 | 501 |
| 2013 | #521 | 510 |
| 2012 | #495 | 540 |
| 2011 | #534 | 477 |
| 2010 | #537 | 476 |
| 2009 | #586 | 446 |
| 2008 | #579 | 443 |
| 2007 | #573 | 448 |
| 2006 | #565 | 443 |
| 2005 | #560 | 424 |
| 2004 | #525 | 454 |
| 2003 | #537 | 429 |
| 2002 | #508 | 448 |
| 2001 | #492 | 466 |
| 2000 | #490 | 476 |
| 1999 | #522 | 406 |
| 1998 | #594 | 314 |
| 1997 | #605 | 292 |
| 1996 | #570 | 319 |
| 1995 | #677 | 243 |
| 1994 | #641 | 264 |
| 1993 | #637 | 263 |
| 1992 | #724 | 203 |
| 1991 | #725 | 195 |
| 1990 | #710 | 204 |
| 1989 | #713 | 191 |
| 1988 | #669 | 200 |
| 1987 | #772 | 142 |
| 1986 | #771 | 138 |
| 1985 | #792 | 126 |
| 1984 | #719 | 147 |
| 1983 | #772 | 127 |
| 1982 | #732 | 141 |
| 1981 | #813 | 116 |
| 1980 | #850 | 108 |
| 1979 | #864 | 101 |
| 1978 | #891 | 93 |
| 1977 | #1,036 | 69 |
| 1976 | #969 | 74 |
| 1975 | #1,065 | 61 |
| 1974 | #923 | 77 |
| 1973 | #1,054 | 59 |
| 1972 | #1,107 | 54 |
| 1971 | #1,199 | 47 |
| 1970 | #1,297 | 41 |
| 1969 | #1,326 | 36 |
| 1968 | #1,428 | 30 |
| 1967 | #1,312 | 33 |
| 1966 | #1,613 | 23 |
| 1965 | #1,774 | 20 |
| 1964 | #1,581 | 25 |
| 1963 | #2,414 | 12 |
| 1962 | #2,364 | 12 |
| 1961 | #1,948 | 18 |
| 1960 | #2,423 | 12 |
| 1959 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #2,631 | 10 |
| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
| 1953 | #3,425 | 6 |
| 1952 | #2,251 | 12 |
| 1951 | #2,495 | 10 |
| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #3,298 | 6 |
| 1948 | #3,316 | 6 |
| 1947 | #2,862 | 8 |
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| 1942 | #3,212 | 6 |
| 1941 | #3,505 | 5 |
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| 1936 | #2,629 | 8 |
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| 1929 | #3,559 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ahmed! It came in at #3,559, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1930–1935, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Ahmed is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#397 · 1 in 4,598
- New York#465 · 1 in 5,513
- Michigan#501 · 1 in 8,031
- Illinois#651 · 1 in 9,924
- California#842 · 1 in 15,357
Best ever in a state: #160 in Minnesota, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #397 | 9 | 1 in 4,598 |
| New York | #465 | 20 | 1 in 5,513 |
| Michigan | #501 | 8 | 1 in 8,031 |
| Illinois | #651 | 8 | 1 in 9,924 |
| California | #842 | 11 | 1 in 15,357 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ahmed
- 13 spots since 2024 (#690 → #703)
- 69 spots since 2020 (#634 → #703)
- 207 spots since 2015 (#496 → #703)
- Biggest jump: 145 spots in 1978 (#1,036 → #891)
- Biggest drop: 142 spots in 1975 (#923 → #1,065)
- Debuted 1929
- Peaked 2000 at #490 (476 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 50 yrs · run 1978–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,249 boys born in 2015 were named Ahmed (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,471 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #490 in 2000, was only 1 in 4,126 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.2% of all boys named Ahmed (5,219) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1920s | 6 | #3,559 (1929) | #3,559 |
| 1930s | 8 | #2,629 (1936) | #2,629 |
| 1940s | 31 | #2,862 (1947) | #3,239 |
| 1950s | 80 | #2,251 (1952) | #3,060 |
| 1960s | 221 | #1,312 (1967) | #1,818 |
| 1970s | 676 | #864 (1979) | #1,041 |
| 1980s | 1,436 | #669 (1988) | #760 |
| 1990s | 2,703 | #522 (1999) | #641 |
| 2000s | 4,477 | #490 (2000) | #542 |
| 2010s | 5,219 | #495 (2012) | #530 |
| 2020s | 2,425 | #634 (2020) | #670 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ahmed in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 17,654 of them was named Ahmed, which outranked 86.8% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #886Nestor94
- #886Russel94
- #886Woodrow94
- #891Ahmed93
- #891Randell93
- #891Rasheed93
- #891Raymundo93
- #898Nicklaus92
- #898Norris92
- #898Zebulon92
Tied with 6 names at #891; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.