girls:
18 births since 1977
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
19.5k births since 1950
#828 (82nd percentile)
overall:
19.5k births since 1950
#1837 (76th percentile)
The name Ahmad is the #1,837 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,540 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 76.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #828 (82.0% percentile) for all time with 19,522 births since 1950. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 1977.
Ahmad first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (1950 for boys and 1977 for girls). Birth data for Ahmad is available in 71 out of the 74 years between 1950 and 2023 (71 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ahmad has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ahmad reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 56.1% percentile (ranked #363) with 320 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 320 births per million (ranked 56.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ahmad ranks #557 for boys (38.9% percentile) with 214 births per million, which is 66.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ahmad reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #755) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1979.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ahmad".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Ahmad. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.0% confident that Ahmad is pronounced as uh-MAHD, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-mahd, at 26.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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