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Ahlam

#4,356 in 2025Girls' name

Dreams

Ahlam has been given to 1,074 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #4,356 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Ahlam, 2025

1 in 104,000

Ahlam over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ahlam: meaning, origin, and history

Dreams

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ahlam means

Ahlam means “dreams”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,074 girls were recorded with the name Ahlam between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,015 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,170 in 2020 to #4,356 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,651 in 2015 to #4,356 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ahlam?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,356
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ahlam sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ahlam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ahlams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ahlam was born before 2012 — so the typical Ahlam is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,074
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (359).

Is Ahlam 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
−1,341
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−186
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−705
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.3%
Peak was 2024 (54)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,015
2024

Spellings of Ahlam

Ahlam is not the most common spelling — Ayla is, with 55.6% against Ahlam's 1.6%.

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 Ahlam is used

Across 1910–2025, Ahlam was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 170,790 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Colorado1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Ahlam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ahlam around the world

Where Ahlam 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • France
    1968–2025
    #1,985
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1985–2011
    #514
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ahlam by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,356
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 186
Best rank ever
#3,015
2024
Peak year
2024
54 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,074
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Ahlam

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ahlam

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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