Ahmad Forename
83rd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 4,373,092 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Indonesia
Highest density in:
Malaysia
Ahmad Forename User-submission:
Ahmad or Ahmed originated from Mohammad, which means 'to be praised'. Ahmad means 'the highly praised'.
Ahmad Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 100% | 1,452,007 | 1:178 | 5 |
| Iran | 100% | 643,589 | 1:122 | 14 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 561,787 | 1:346 | 28 |
| Nigeria | 99% | 338,440 | 1:525 | 70 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 332,792 | 1:91 | 10 |
| Afghanistan | 99% | 311,740 | 1:105 | 8 |
| Egypt | 100% | 237,183 | 1:387 | 71 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 66,810 | 1:2,387 | 330 |
| India | 83% | 60,382 | 1:20,120 | 2,877 |
| Sudan | 100% | 49,776 | 1:760 | 137 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 47,092 | 1:654 | 97 |
| Libya | - | 39,844 | 1:156 | 20 |
| Israel | 100% | 36,434 | 1:231 | 20 |
| United States | 100% | 21,207 | 1:17,095 | 1,495 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 12,790 | 1:4,127 | 708 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 12,423 | 1:776 | 188 |
| Somalia | - | 11,768 | 1:1,149 | 192 |
| Philippines | 99% | 11,431 | 1:9,274 | 1,277 |
| Morocco | 100% | 10,154 | 1:3,383 | 418 |
| Syria | - | 8,634 | 1:2,236 | 374 |
| Mozambique | - | 8,160 | 1:3,339 | 695 |
| Niger | 97% | 7,168 | 1:2,676 | 383 |
| Canada | 100% | 5,872 | 1:5,643 | 839 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 5,465 | 1:1,297 | 268 |
| England | 100% | 5,064 | 1:10,980 | 838 |
| Sweden | 100% | 4,972 | 1:1,983 | 312 |
| Oman | - | 4,958 | 1:829 | 120 |
| Thailand | 100% | 3,954 | 1:17,720 | 2,516 |
| Germany | 100% | 3,704 | 1:26,101 | 1,047 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 3,416 | 1:380 | 18 |
| Jordan | - | 2,954 | 1:2,988 | 456 |
| Iraq | 100% | 2,887 | 1:12,129 | 908 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 2,790 | 1:7,455 | 1,183 |
| Poland | 95% | 2,733 | 1:13,914 | 568 |
| Tajikistan | 99% | 2,249 | 1:3,724 | 603 |
| Ghana | 100% | 2,247 | 1:12,010 | 1,092 |
| Chad | 100% | 2,039 | 1:6,669 | 1,038 |
| Uganda | 87% | 1,986 | 1:20,623 | 1,657 |
| Brunei | 100% | 1,924 | 1:218 | 25 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 1,863 | 1:16,525 | 1,600 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 1,849 | 1:52,764 | 4,907 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 1,841 | 1:3,885 | 449 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,798 | 1:119,152 | 6,255 |
| Angola | - | 1,754 | 1:15,374 | 1,486 |
| Kenya | - | 1,754 | 1:26,401 | 2,322 |
| Denmark | - | 1,468 | 1:3,848 | 513 |
| Malawi | 100% | 1,460 | 1:11,721 | 1,242 |
| Mali | 100% | 1,270 | 1:13,368 | 1,054 |
| Australia | - | 1,202 | 1:11,362 | 1,014 |
| France | 100% | 1,042 | 1:63,791 | 1,738 |
| Spain | 100% | 1,023 | 1:45,484 | 1,894 |
| Russia | 99% | 788 | 1:183,038 | 2,810 |
| Belgium | 100% | 737 | 1:15,590 | 1,365 |
| Qatar | 100% | 713 | 1:3,323 | 504 |
| Singapore | 96% | 698 | 1:9,007 | 1,623 |
| Algeria | 100% | 633 | 1:60,311 | 1,918 |
| Comoros | - | 627 | 1:1,214 | 222 |
| Norway | 100% | 534 | 1:9,611 | 861 |
| South Africa | 99% | 533 | 1:102,313 | 8,236 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 492 | 1:34,354 | 2,703 |
| Kuwait | - | 475 | 1:7,969 | 982 |
| Austria | 100% | 473 | 1:18,000 | 857 |
| Greece | 100% | 412 | 1:26,540 | 1,191 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 365 | 1:82,745 | 4,013 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 339 | 1:63,748 | 3,853 |
| Togo | - | 330 | 1:21,937 | 3,753 |
| Italy | 97% | 307 | 1:198,899 | 2,860 |
| Djibouti | - | 283 | 1:3,236 | 404 |
| Senegal | 100% | 257 | 1:56,737 | 2,142 |
| New Zealand | - | 252 | 1:18,000 | 1,486 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 240 | 1:307,615 | 12,192 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 232 | 1:35,403 | 1,850 |
| Scotland | 100% | 230 | 1:23,262 | 1,052 |
| Gabon | - | 200 | 1:9,417 | 1,573 |
| Romania | 100% | 180 | 1:111,400 | 4,745 |
| Bahrain | - | 178 | 1:7,577 | 1,232 |
| Japan | - | 177 | 1:723,085 | 13,085 |
| Guinea | 100% | 161 | 1:73,656 | 2,006 |
| China | - | 149 | 1:9,168,160 | 59,569 |
| Finland | 92% | 149 | 1:36,800 | 1,487 |
| Guyana | 100% | 138 | 1:5,531 | 984 |
| Suriname | 100% | 132 | 1:4,188 | 917 |
| Wales | 100% | 124 | 1:24,954 | 1,241 |
| Armenia | 100% | 114 | 1:25,603 | 1,336 |
| Tunisia | - | 114 | 1:5,938 | 760 |
| Lebanon | - | 108 | 1:52,107 | 2,407 |
| Kazakhstan | 98% | 106 | 1:167,423 | 4,094 |
| Ireland | 100% | 95 | 1:48,879 | 1,612 |
| Portugal | - | 92 | 1:113,162 | 2,965 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 92 | 1:14,798 | 1,960 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 70 | 1:262,564 | 10,858 |
| Panama | 100% | 70 | 1:55,808 | 3,534 |
| Hong Kong | - | 69 | 1:112,358 | 2,880 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 68 | 1:349,554 | 23,700 |
| Hungary | 100% | 61 | 1:160,521 | 929 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 61 | 1:378,294 | 15,447 |
| Belarus | 100% | 53 | 1:178,913 | 1,596 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 53 | 1:103,262 | 1,140 |
| Madagascar | - | 49 | 1:482,233 | 1,749 |
| Turkey | 100% | 48 | 1:1,620,869 | 12,777 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 45 | 1:19,357 | 1,267 |
| Czechia | 100% | 45 | 1:236,804 | 1,745 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 45 | 1:1,011,109 | 3,361 |
| Liberia | 100% | 43 | 1:102,606 | 4,435 |
| South Korea | - | 43 | 1:128,940 | 5,936 |
| Maldives | 100% | 41 | 1:10,583 | 534 |
| Seychelles | - | 39 | 1:2,376 | 540 |
| Gambia | - | 36 | 1:53,517 | 339 |
| Bulgaria | - | 34 | 1:205,600 | 5,098 |
| Ecuador | - | 33 | 1:537,179 | 5,554 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 32 | 1:226,150 | 3,449 |
| Mauritania | 100% | 28 | 1:146,259 | 4,934 |
| Botswana | 100% | 26 | 1:84,017 | 7,219 |
| East Timor | - | 25 | 1:48,735 | 137 |
| Eritrea | 100% | 25 | 1:190,119 | 176 |
| Mexico | 100% | 23 | 1:5,397,584 | 20,990 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 22 | 1:83,779 | 1,413 |
| Belize | 100% | 21 | 1:16,872 | 2,067 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 19 | 1:549,014 | 14,985 |
| Iceland | - | 19 | 1:19,264 | 1,346 |
| Curaçao | - | 18 | 1:8,656 | 603 |
| Argentina | 100% | 17 | 1:2,516,073 | 8,541 |
| Malta | - | 17 | 1:25,256 | 1,655 |
| Chile | 100% | 16 | 1:1,100,450 | 9,633 |
| Laos | - | 16 | 1:411,678 | 310 |
| Myanmar | - | 16 | 1:3,246,767 | 1,079 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 16 | 1:6,859 | 1,021 |
| Benin | 100% | 15 | 1:705,056 | 20,455 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 15 | 1:37,603 | 1,694 |
| Nepal | 100% | 14 | 1:2,034,811 | 32,148 |
| Zambia | - | 14 | 1:1,132,485 | 16,312 |
| Colombia | - | 12 | 1:3,981,577 | 24,591 |
| Croatia | - | 12 | 1:351,423 | 4,684 |
| Estonia | - | 11 | 1:119,580 | 4,476 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 11 | 1:223,523 | 3,995 |
| Yemen | - | 10 | 1:2,629,675 | 3,867 |
| American Samoa | - | 9 | 1:6,205 | 1,322 |
| Fiji | - | 9 | 1:99,153 | 1,900 |
| Georgia | 100% | 9 | 1:415,385 | 8,265 |
| Rwanda | - | 9 | 1:1,263,493 | 1,939 |
| Aruba | - | 8 | 1:12,972 | 1,901 |
| Cambodia | - | 8 | 1:2,034,166 | 23,777 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 8 | 1:595,994 | 8,229 |
| Peru | 100% | 8 | 1:3,973,932 | 31,495 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 8 | 1:663,758 | 2,742 |
| Vietnam | - | 8 | 1:11,577,889 | 4,258 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 8 | 1:1,927,977 | 54,057 |
| Congo | - | 7 | 1:715,601 | 13,459 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 7 | 1:859,762 | 11,907 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 6 | 1:16,566 | 2,341 |
| Moldova | - | 6 | 1:593,523 | 3,425 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 6 | 1:591,717 | 4,217 |
| Guatemala | - | 5 | 1:3,221,686 | 6,935 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 5 | 1:1,194,655 | 24,199 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 5 | 1:63,627 | 2,282 |
| Central African Republic | - | 4 | 1:1,128,848 | 698 |
| Haiti | - | 4 | 1:2,681,738 | 23,796 |
| Swaziland | - | 4 | 1:325,044 | 2,285 |
| Albania | - | 3 | 1:1,015,523 | 26,928 |
| Bahamas | - | 3 | 1:133,123 | 2,262 |
| Macau | - | 3 | 1:202,736 | 1,370 |
| Namibia | - | 3 | 1:801,393 | 11,859 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 3 | 1:193,652 | 6,393 |
| Transnistria | - | 3 | 1:158,546 | 1,411 |
| Andorra | - | 2 | 1:41,444 | 944 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Grenada | - | 2 | 1:54,062 | 3,078 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 2 | 1:1,019,998 | 36,117 |
| Lithuania | - | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| Papua New Guinea | - | 2 | 1:4,076,157 | 155,819 |
| Bermuda | - | 1 | 1:64,826 | 2,481 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| El Salvador | - | 1 | 1:6,341,786 | 16,428 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Honduras | - | 1 | 1:8,817,467 | 33,018 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Jamaica | - | 1 | 1:2,883,227 | 22,340 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Montenegro | - | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 1 | 1:177,815 | 8,104 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| Uruguay | - | 1 | 1:3,427,637 | 13,958 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
Ahmad (9,712,807) may also be a surname.
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