Ahad
#2,885 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ahad has been given to 879 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #2,885 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 81 recorded.
Babies named Ahad, 2025
1 in 77,100
Ahad over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ahad?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 77,100
- 43 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 39,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,885
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 53,441 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ahad sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ahad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ahads were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ahad was born before 2017 — so the typical Ahad is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 34.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 879
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (305).
Is Ahad rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −95
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,052
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +893
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.54×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 53.1%
- Peak was 2020 (81)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.5% average annual change
Spellings of Ahad
Ahad is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 37.9% against Ahad's 0.06%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Ahad is used
Across 2016–2025, Ahad was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 29,300 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 12,500
- 2Virginia1 in 20,000
- 3Illinois1 in 25,000
- 4Texas1 in 25,000
- 5New Jersey1 in 33,333
- 6Maryland1 in 50,000
- 7California1 in 100,000
- 8Michigan1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Ahad around the world
Where Ahad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2025#798in 2025
- Scotland2011–2020#711in 2020
- Ireland2004–2022#657in 2022
- France2017–2025#4,996in 2025
- Canada1999–2024#1,105in 2024
- South Australia2010–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Ahad by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ahad
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ahad
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.