Ahmet
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Övülmeye layık, övülmüş
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ahmet/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ahmet is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 96(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 161
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 271
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.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #120 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- 1 in 96 (inferred from the name graph)
857,105 people, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
Övülmeye layık, övülmüş.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ahmet 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #5 | 857,105 | 1 in 96 | 857K | Ahmet | 221 |
| SY Syria | #29 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 428 | — | Ahmet | 14 |
| DE Germany | #298 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Ahmet | 168 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #19 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 271 | — | Ahmet | 20 |
| AF Afghanistan | #226 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Ahmet | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | #4 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 161 | — | Ahmet | 43 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 786 | 5.5K | — | 10 |
857,105 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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'tadidb. 854IQnot in their usual name16th Abbasid Caliph from 892 to 902
- Ahmed Ib. 1590TRnot in their usual name14th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1603–1617)
- Ahmed IIb. 1643TRnot in their usual name21th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1691–1695)
- Ahmed IIIb. 1673BGnot in their usual name23th Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1703–1730)
- Ahmed Urabib. 1841EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian army officer and revolutionary (1841–1911)
- Ahmet Necdet Sezerb. 1941TR10th President of Turkey (born 1941)
- Jamal Khashoggib. 1958SAnot in their usual nameSaudi journalist (1958–2018)
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawib. 1966JOnot in their usual nameJordanian jihadist (1966–2006)
- Halit Ergençb. 1970TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1970)
- 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).
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)
Attested in 68 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 857K | #3 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 5.5K | #48 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2025 | 2.3K | #24 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 7 | #48 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 4 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ahmet mean?
- Recorded meaning: Övülmeye layık, övülmüş.
- What are other forms of the name Ahmet?
- In the etymology graph, Ahmed, Hamit and Amadou are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ahmet?
- A machine transcription gives /ahmet/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Ahmet a male or female name?
- Ahmet 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 Ahmet have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 857 thousand people named Ahmet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahmet.
- Where is Ahmet most common?
- Ahmet is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 96 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ahmet?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 857,105 people named Ahmet in 2025, about 1 in 96 residents.
- How common is Ahmet compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ahmet is the 5th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ahmetThe 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, “Ahmet” — the 5th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.