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Ahmet

#7,689 in 2025Boys' name

Praiseworthy; benign, through أَحْمَد

Ahmet has been given to 660 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #7,689 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Ahmet, 2025

1 in 332,000

Ahmet over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ahmet: meaning, origin, and history

Praiseworthy; benign, through أَحْمَد

Arabic

What Ahmet means

Ahmet belongs to the name family reached through Ahmet → أَحْمَد. Its meaning is “praiseworthy; benign”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ahmet is used in Serbo-Croatian and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Ahmet comes through Arabic أَحْمَد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ahmad and أَحْمَد.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Ahmet is pronounced /axmet/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 660 boys were recorded with the name Ahmet between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2015; its best national rank was #3,023 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,705 in 2020 to #7,689 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,023 in 2015 to #7,689 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.

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How common is Ahmet?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,689
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ahmet 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 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ahmet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ahmets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ahmet was born before 2010 — so the typical Ahmet is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
660
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (251).

Is Ahmet 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
−2,027
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,984
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,666
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.26×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.3%
Peak was 2015 (38)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,023
2015

Spellings of Ahmet

Ahmet is not the most common spelling — Ahmad is, with 29.4% against Ahmet's 0.95%.

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 Ahmet is used

Across 1910–2025, Ahmet was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 430,021 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Ahmet has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ahmet around the world

Where Ahmet 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
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • France
    1969–2025
    #1,289
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2022
    #457
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2002–2023
    #2,931
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1982–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ahmet by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,689
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,984
Best rank ever
#3,023
2015
Peak year
2015
38 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
660
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Ahmet

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

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Sibling names for Ahmet

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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