Ăhmåd

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ăhmåd 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”).

rarermore common
  • 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)

476,437 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
355 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Derivation of Ăhmåd: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ăhmåd
  1. Arabicأَحْمَدʔaḥmad(measured from records)
  2. 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 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ăhmåd 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.

Where Ăhmåd is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—476,4371 in 2.8K476KAhmad110
US United States—16,2911 in 20K27KAhmad355
NO Norway—4,6921 in 1.2K7.1K—44
ES Spain—3,5341 in 14K3.5K—67
DK Denmark—2,6861 in 2.2K3.4K—1
FI Finland—8971 in 6.2K1.8K—20
GY Guyana—2161 in 3.5K216——
SY Syria#4≈20 est.≈1 in 959K—Ahmad103

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ăhmåd is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname127 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ahmad, Aḥmad, Ähmäd, Âhmâd, Ahmád

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ăhmåd under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ăhmåd 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 Ăhmåd a male or female name?
Ăhmåd 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 Ăhmåd have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 476 thousand people named Ăhmåd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahmad.
Where is Ăhmåd most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ăhmåd 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 Ăhmåd?
In India, the national register counted 476,437 people named Ăhmåd, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
How common is Ăhmåd compared with other names?
In Syria, Ăhmåd is the 4th most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Ăhmåd” — the 4th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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