Àhmad
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Àhmad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Syria it is the 4th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “to thank or to praise”).
- INIndia1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 20K
- SYSyria≈1 in 959K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
476,437 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ahmad in IN India, SY Syria, US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Arabicأَحْمَدʔaḥmad(measured from records)
- Arabic rootحَمِدَḥamida“to thank or to praise”(measured from records)
From Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “to thank or to praise”).
Sources 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Àhmad counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 476,437 | 1 in 2.8K | 476K | Ahmad | 110 |
| US United States | — | 16,291 | 1 in 20K | 27K | Ahmad | 355 |
| NO Norway | — | 4,692 | 1 in 1.2K | 7.1K | — | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,534 | 1 in 14K | 3.5K | — | 67 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,686 | 1 in 2.2K | 3.4K | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 897 | 1 in 6.2K | 1.8K | — | 20 |
| GY Guyana | — | 216 | 1 in 3.5K | 216 | — | — |
| SY Syria | #4 | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 959K | — | Ahmad | 103 |
476,437 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Al-Mu'tamidb. 845IQnot in their usual nameAbbasid Caliph from 870 to 892
- Al-Mu'tadidb. 854IQnot in their usual name16th Abbasid Caliph from 892 to 902
- Ahmad Shah Durranib. 1722AFfounder of the Afghan Durrani Empire (r. 1747–1772)
- Ahmed Urabib. 1841EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian army officer and revolutionary (1841–1911)
- Naguib Mahfouzb. 1911EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian writer (1911–2006)
- Ahmed Zaki Yamanib. 1930SAnot in their usual nameformer Saudi Arabian minister (1930–2021)
- Jamal Khashoggib. 1958SAnot in their usual nameSaudi journalist (1958–2018)
- Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambib. 1958KMnot in their usual nameformer President of Comoros
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawib. 1966JOnot in their usual nameJordanian jihadist (1966–2006)
- Midob. 1983EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Àhmad mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “to thank or to praise”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Àhmad a male or female name?
- Àhmad is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Àhmad have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 476 thousand people named Àhmad, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahmad.
- Where is Àhmad most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Àhmad is densest in Norway — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Àhmad?
- In India, the national register counted 476,437 people named Àhmad, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Àhmad compared with other names?
- In Syria, Àhmad is the 4th most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A0hmadThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Àhmad” — the 4th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.