Ahmaud

Boys' name

To thank or to praise

Ahmaud has been given to 311 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 2022, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Ahmaud, 2024

1 in 239,000

Ahmaud over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ahmaud: meaning, origin, and history

To thank or to praise

Arabic

What Ahmaud means

Ahmaud means “to thank or to praise”, associated with ḥamida.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Apparently a variant of Ahmad, from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “to thank or to praise”).

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Origin, language, and formation

Ahmaud is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Ahmaud comes through Arabic أَحْمَد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ahmad.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 311 boys were recorded with the name Ahmaud between 1997 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,995 in 2022.

How common is Ahmaud?

Ahmaud had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 239,000; 14 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 123,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 165,505 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ahmaud sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 165,505 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ahmaud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ahmauds were born

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

Median birth year: 2012; About 13 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 33.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 91.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 311; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (104).

Is Ahmaud 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2022 (27)
Years since peak: 3; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 52.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,995; 2022

Spellings of Ahmaud

Ahmaud is not the most common spelling — Ahmad is, with 34.9% against Ahmaud's 0.53%.

Ahmad34.9%20,348
Ahmed29.6%17,282
Armand26.3%15,343
Mahmoud4.7%2,739
Ahmari2.4%1,389
Ahad1.5%879
Ahmaud0.53%311

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 Ahmaud is used

Across 1910–2025, Ahmaud was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 550,620 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Florida1 in —

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. Ahmaud has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ahmaud by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,995; 2022
Peak year: 2022; 27 that year
First recorded: 1997
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 311
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ahmaud

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

Ahmeer Ahmeir Ahmon Ahman Ahmani Ahmier Ahmari Ahmet Ahmias Ahmere Ahmiri Ahmaad Ahmod Ahmazi Ahmar Ahmadou Ahmauri Daud Saud Ahmir Rashaud Ahmire Ahmare Ahmarion

Sibling names for Ahmaud

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

For a sister

Ezra Sapphire Scout Keilani Shoshana Nila Everlee Zariyah

For a brother

Kenji Loyal Rayden Kashton Zeke Gian Rishi Tripp

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