Ahamed

surname · Bangla · Latin script

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

Ahamed is a surname, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bangla and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: variant spelling of Ahmad, 'most praised'.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 19◐
  • BDBangladesh1 in 58
  • MYMalaysia1 in 91

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈987K ●

across 9 countries

#112 ●

of 16M given names

12 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
380 ●

17M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 96 ◐

Türkiye

Spellings & scripts●

AhmetLatin · Turkish●9.4M records
АхмедCyrillic · Russian●147K records
עמיתHebrew · Hebrew●94K records
অমিতBengali · Bangla●6K records
ᲐხმედGeorgian · Georgian●2.1K records
อะหมัดThai · Thai●1.1K records
아흐메드Hangul · Korean●6 records
ΑχμαντGreek · Greek●4 records
અહેમદGujarati · Gujarati●1 records
අමිතSinhala · Sinhala●1 records
ԱհմադArmenian · Armenian●1 records
AَhmadArabic · Thai●0 records

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ahmet in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, DE Germany and 6 more, Ahmad in PK Pakistan, MY Malaysia, US United States and 6 more, Ahmed in BD Bangladesh, GB United Kingdom, ES Spain and 1 more and Amit in IN India, NP Nepal.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

variant spelling of Ahmad, 'most praised'

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ahamed is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#3512,079,4854.3M rec.—476KAmit316
BD Bangladesh#2984,532,801218K rec.—listedAhmed201
PK Pakistan#6972,640,53489K rec.—1Ahmad173
TR Türkiye#4857,1059.4M rec.1 in 96857KAhmet197
MY Malaysia#872603,721531K rec.—3.4KAhmad157
RU Russia#193228,136206K rec.—#94Ахмед140
ID Indonesia#110149,14278K rec.—listedAhmad265
NG Nigeria—134,423168K rec.——Ahmad84
SY Syria#16122,713202K rec.——Ahmet66
GB United Kingdom#720117,85068K rec.—4Ahmed175
IL Israel#96103,631125K rec.—2.5Kעמית113
DE Germany#29192,031121K rec.—1Ahmet184

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Bangla354K40%
  • English317K35%
  • Hindi90K10%
  • 83K9%
  • Arabic13K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bangla353,62240%
English316,92735%
Hindi89,98010%
82,7799%
Arabic13,1151%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ahamed is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname8.6K records spelled Ahamed6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, India, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ãhämëd, Áhàmed, Ahàmed, Ähamed

  • Swahili surname8.2K records spelled Ahamed4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, India, Kenya, United States

    Also written Ahaméd

  • Malay surname5.1K records spelled Ahamed3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Âhámëd

  • Spanish surname2.7K records spelled Ahamed7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, India, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Àhamed, Áhámed, Ãhãmêd, Ahặmễd, Āhāmēd

  • Thai surname2.6K records spelled Ahamed16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India, Malaysia, United States

    Also written อฮาเหม็ด, Ahamat, หะหมัด, อฮาเม็ด, อฮาหมัด

  • Amharic surname1.4K records spelled Ahamed2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, India, Ethiopia, United States

    Also written አሀመድ

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Over time●

05101520201020152020

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Ahamed in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2006–2020
Yearrecords
200610
200711
200812
200913
201012
201110
201210
201311
201413
201513
201613
201714
201813
201915
202016

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 15 years between 2006–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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●

Attested in 40 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Ahamed
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—4.4K#1,151
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—2K#3,363
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.2K#4,686
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#25,283
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010550#39,887
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000382#51,233
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020342#26,555
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—195#16,907
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—195#16,849
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991117—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—83#8,357
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—75#20,963

Reference works 5

  • 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
  • Wikipedia surname 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 2026-09-12 data build · 111 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ahamed?
We estimate roughly 987 thousand people bear Ahamed (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Ahamed have the most bearers?
Ahamed is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled amit.
How common is Ahamed compared with other names?
In India, Ahamed is the 35th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
What does the name Ahamed mean?
Recorded meaning: variant spelling of Ahmad, 'most praised'
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Ahamed” — the 35th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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