Ahmed
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Muslim surname from Arabic Ahmad, literally ‘the most praised’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 80 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Ahmed is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name. Ahmed is also written Ահմեդ in Armenian, Aِhmed in Arabic and 아흐메트 in Korean (Hangul).
- EGEgypt≈1 in 27(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 75
- TNTunisia≈1 in 80
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ahmed itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- #324 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 513 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ahmed in other scripts: Armenian and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)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)Muslim surname from Arabic Ahmad, literally ‘the most praised’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ahmed, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ahmed 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #3 | ≈4,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 27 | — | Ahmed | 290 |
| TR Türkiye | #709 | 857,105as Ahmet | 1 in 96 | 857K | Ahmed | 92 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #4 | ≈470,000 est. | ≈1 in 75 | — | Ahmed | 246 |
| NG Nigeria | #84 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 611 | — | Ahmed | 132 |
| MA Morocco | #3 | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 109 | — | Ahmed | 178 |
| SY Syria | #7 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 95 | — | Ahmed | 77 |
| TN Tunisia | #178 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 80 | 2K | Ahmed | 141 |
| KW Kuwait | #3 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 91 | — | Ahmed | 158 |
| US United States | #838 | 37,887 | 1 in 8.8K | 74K | Ahmed | 513 |
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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Ahmed is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Arabic; derived from Mohammed, meaning "the praised one".
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Arabic Aḥmad, 'most praised' or 'more praiseworthy'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
(Variant of Mohammed) 'The Blessed" —after
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
In English, Ahmed Korei [Abu Alaa]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Palestinian politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ahmed Ib. 1590TR14th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1603–1617)
- Mohamed Ould Ghazouanib. 1956MRnot in their usual nameMauritanian retired general and politician; President of Mauritania (2019–present)
- Jamal Khashoggib. 1958SAnot in their usual nameSaudi journalist (1958–2018)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)152 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 80 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ahmed mean, and where does it come from?
- Muslim surname from Arabic Ahmad, literally ‘the most praised’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people named Ahmed?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 million people named Ahmed in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahmed. After it come Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Morocco; the country table on this page ranks them.
- What are other forms of the name Ahmed?
- In the etymology graph, Ahmet, Hamit and Amadou are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Ahmed?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,887 people named Ahmed in 2020, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Ahmed compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Ahmed is the 3rd most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
- Is Ahmed a male or female name?
- Ahmed is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE), France (INSEE, 2024) and Norway (SSB), among others.
What do you want to know about Ahmed?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ahmedThe 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, “Ahmed” — the 3rd most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.