Ahmet
#7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 38 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 660since 1959
Ahmet over time
Rank among boys' names. Ahmet has never cracked the top 3,000 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 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 2021 | #5,338 | 17 |
| 2020 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #3,883 | 27 |
| 2015 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 2014 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2013 | #3,497 | 30 |
| 2012 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #4,110 | 24 |
| 2010 | #3,812 | 27 |
| 2009 | #4,035 | 25 |
| 2008 | #3,646 | 29 |
| 2007 | #4,640 | 20 |
| 2006 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #4,326 | 20 |
| 2004 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
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| 1987 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #5,926 | 6 |
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| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
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| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
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| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
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| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ahmet! It came in at #3,988, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1966, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ahmet is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,554 · 1 in 23,066
Best ever in a state: #782 in New Jersey, 2016.
Show every state
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| New York | #1,554 | 5 | 1 in 23,066 |
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See more about Ahmet
- 2,020 spots since 2024 (#5,659 → #7,679)
- 1,980 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #7,679)
- 4,657 spots since 2015 (#3,022 → #7,679)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2015 at #3,022 (38 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 50,441 boys born in 2015 were named Ahmet (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.0% of all boys named Ahmet (251) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,988 (1959) | #3,988 |
| 1960s | 6 | #3,559 (1967) | #3,559 |
| 1970s | 16 | #5,059 (1978) | #5,447 |
| 1980s | 20 | #5,615 (1989) | #5,877 |
| 1990s | 87 | #4,341 (1999) | #5,869 |
| 2000s | 185 | #3,646 (2008) | #4,835 |
| 2010s | 251 | #3,022 (2015) | #4,218 |
| 2020s | 90 | #5,019 (2022) | #5,985 |
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.
Ahmet in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
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1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 127,424 of them was named Ahmet, which outranked 61.0% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,197Yeng16
- #4,197Yuta16
- #4,197Zavian16
- #4,413Ahmet15
- #4,413Albin15
- #4,413Alecsander15
- #4,413Alejandra15
- #4,650Abrahim14
- #4,650Adeel14
- #4,650Ahman14
Tied with 236 names at #4,413; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.