Ąhmâd

given name · Latin script

Ąhmâd 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”).

  • NONorway1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 2.2K
  • INIndia1 in 2.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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

Record sources
355 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

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)
Derivation of Ąhmâd: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ąhmâd
  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”).

Cited for this meaning 5

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Wiktionary
  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ąhmâd 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 Ąhmâd 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≈40 est.≈1 in 612K—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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ąhmâd 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 Ąhmâd 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.
In which country does Ąhmâd have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 476 thousand people named Ąhmâd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahmad.
Where is Ąhmâd most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ąhmâd 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 Ąhmâd?
In India, the national register counted 476,437 people named Ąhmâd, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
How common is Ąhmâd compared with other names?
In Syria, Ąhmâd 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, “Ąhmâd” — the 4th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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