Ahmed

surname · English · Latin script

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

Ahmed is a surname, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 15th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Muslim surname from Arabic Ahmad, literally ‘the most praised’.

rarermore common
  • KMComoros1 in 11◐
  • MRMauritania1 in 22
  • YEYemen1 in 35

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

≈124K ●

across 9 countries

#276 ●

of 21M surnames

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
439 ●

3.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 433 ◐

Norway

Spellings & scripts●

AhmedLatin · English●3.4M records
AhmedArabic · Arabic●2 records
아메드Hangul · Korean●4 records
ԱհմեդArmenian · Armenian●2 records

Locally spelled Ahméd in TN Tunisia.

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●

Muslim surname from Arabic Ahmad, literally ‘the most praised’

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Ahmed is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#152,850,256105 rec.——Ahmed8
EG Egypt#1581,584807K rec.——Ahmed269
GB United Kingdom#136110,349107K rec.—listedAhmed244
NG Nigeria#2190,146182K rec.——Ahmed120
PK Pakistan#7475,59433K rec.——Ahmed180
MR Mauritania#472,6611.7K rec.——Ahmed58
YE Yemen#270,49126K rec.——Ahmed111
SA Saudi Arabia#565,30374K rec.——Ahmed233
SY Syria#957,971404K rec.——Ahmed71
KM Comoros#149,743388 rec.——Ahmed29
US United States#82748,319558K rec.1 in 6.9K74KAhmed439
TR Türkiye#62342,997183K rec.—857KAhmed89

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

Languages●

  • English3.4M32%
  • Bangla3.2M29%
  • Arabic1.1M11%
  • Urdu763K7%
  • 608K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,433,28232%
Bangla3,190,34029%
Arabic1,138,38211%
Urdu763,1007%
607,7956%

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◐

Ahmed is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname769K records spelled Ahmed6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Ethiopia

    Also written Aḥmed, َAhmed, ِAhmed, Āḥmed

  • French surname512K records spelled Ahmed140 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ahméd, Àhméd, Ahmèd, Ãhmëd, A'Hmed

  • Turkish surname391K records spelled Ahmed86 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Kazakhstan, Iraq

    Languages: Turkish, Kazakh, Azerbaijani

    Also written Ахмед, Akhmed, Áhméd, Åhmèd, Ähmēd

  • Finnish surname50K records spelled Ahmed20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United Kingdom, India, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ahmėd, ÄHmed, Ãhmëd, Ãhmėd, Ãhmĕd

101 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.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

020040060019401960198020002020590 · 2015

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Ahmed in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1929–2025
Yearrecords
19296
19368
19415
19426
19478
19486
19496
19505
195110
195212
19536
19545
195510
19568
195710
19585
19599
196012
196118
196212
196312
196425
196520
196623
196733
196830
196936
197041
197147
197254
197359
197477
197561
197674
197769
197893
1979101
1980108
1981116
1982141
1983127
1984147
1985126
1986138
1987142
1988200
1989191
1990204
1991195
1992203
1993263
1994264
1995243
1996319
1997292
1998314
1999406
2000476
2001466
2002448
2003429
2004454
2005424
2006443
2007448
2008443
2009446
2010476
2011477
2012540
2013510
2014501
2015590
2016582
2017558
2018523
2019462
2020423
2021397
2022410
2023419
2024394
2025382

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 83 years between 1929–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Shahabuddin Ahmed, b. 1930Iajuddin Ahmed, b. 1931Sara Ahmed, b. 1969Abiy Ahmed, b. 1976Khadar Ahmed, b. 1981Riz Ahmed, b. 1982Mohammed Ahmed, b. 1991Sara Ahmed, b. 1998Homam Ahmed, b. 1999Ali Ahmed, b. 2000

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 147 sources across 80 countries.

Official registers attesting Ahmed
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202074K#437
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201048K#720
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202038K#1,091
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—37K#391
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—28K#272
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200027K#1,206
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—24K#131
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—24K#175
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202423K#143
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—15K#354
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—15K#354
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—13K#55

Reference works 8

  • 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
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,098 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ahmed?
We estimate roughly 124 thousand people bear Ahmed (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Ahmed have the most bearers?
Ahmed is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled ahmed.
How common is Ahmed compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Ahmed is the 15th most common surname of 11,292 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Ahmed mean?
Recorded meaning: Muslim surname from Arabic Ahmad, literally ‘the 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, “Ahmed” — the 15th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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