Ahamed
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ahamed has been given to 63 babies in the U.S. since 1989. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2004, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Ahamed, 2011
1 in 406,000
Ahamed 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ahamed?
Ahamed had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 406,000
- 9 of 3,657,935 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 211,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 281,722 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ahamed sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 281,722 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ahamed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ahameds were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ahamed was born before 2001 — so the typical Ahamed is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 63
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (24).
Is Ahamed 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2004 (12)
- Years since peak
- 21
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.7% average annual change
Spellings of Ahamed
Ahamed is not the most common spelling — Ahmad is, with 31.3% against Ahamed's 0.10%.
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.
Ahamed around the world
Where Ahamed 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 & Wales1996–2015#4,747in 2015
- France1982–2022#5,395in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Ahamed by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ahamed
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ahamed
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.