first name
AHMED
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 37,887 people named Ahmed, 54.3% reported their origin as White, 27% as Black and 11.7% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Ahmed peaked in 2015, when 590 babies got the name.
At least 17,282 babies have been given the name since 1929. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Ahmed by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,112. The largest share of babies named Ahmed, 40.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Ahmed is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ahmed has been most common in Minnesota (3.1×), New York (2.4×), and New Jersey (2.4×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.12×).
14,826 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Ahmed
Spelled almost the same
5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Ahmed, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Ahmed ranks #437 of 156,621, with 74,458 people. See Ahmed as a last name
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