Ahmad is an Arabic and Persian name, which means ‘most commendable, most praiseworthy’. It is a superlative of the name Hamid, meaning ‘praiseworthy’.
Ahmad is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Ahmad isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Ahmad ranks 556. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Ahmad. In the entire USA, approximately 16,904 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ahmad. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Ahmad is an Arabic and Persian name, which means ‘most commendable, most praiseworthy’. It is a superlative of the name Hamid, meaning ‘praiseworthy’.
Since the 1970s,... Ahmad has slowly become more popular in the US. However, it is still rare in comparison.
Ahmad is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Ahmad cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #371 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2001. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Ahmad, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Ahmad seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ahmad was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
434 babies were named Ahmad in 2022 - that's 1 in 371,949 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Ahmad ranked 595 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Ahmad is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Ahmad and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ahmad, you can simply say:
Apple
Hat
Mouse
Apple
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ahmad
Ahmad
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
H
M
A
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
H
M
A
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ahmad sounds like this:
