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How popular is “Ahmed” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ahmed” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ahmed” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Ahmed” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ahmed” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ahmed” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Ahmed” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ahmed” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1936 8 0.000003851 8 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 -100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 -100%
1952 12 0.00000316 12 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 -100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 -100%
1961 18 0.000004345 18 -100%
1962 12 0.000002974 12 -100%
1963 12 0.000003032 12 -100%
1964 25 0.000006431 25 -100%
1965 20 0.000005517 20 -100%
1966 23 0.000006617 23 -100%
1967 33 0.00000972 33 -100%
1968 30 0.00000888 30 -100%
1969 36 0.000010359 36 -100%
1970 41 0.000011368 41 -100%
1971 47 0.000013693 47 -100%
1972 55 0.000017499 55 -100%
1973 59 0.000019557 59 -100%
1974 77 0.000025329 77 -100%
1975 61 0.000020203 61 -100%
1976 74 0.000024388 74 -100%
1977 69 0.000021722 69 -100%
1978 93 0.000029302 93 -100%
1979 101 0.000030358 101 -100%
1980 108 0.000031354 108 -100%
1981 116 0.000033532 116 -100%
1982 141 0.000040194 141 -100%
1983 127 0.00003667 127 -100%
1984 147 0.000042135 147 -100%
1985 126 0.000035303 126 -100%
1986 137 0.000038515 137 -100%
1987 142 0.000039383 142 -100%
1988 200 0.000054127 200 -100%
1989 191 0.000049682 191 -100%
1990 204 0.000051613 204 -100%
1991 195 0.000050061 195 -100%
1992 203 0.000052847 203 -100%
1993 263 0.000069756 263 -100%
1994 264 0.000071013 264 -100%
1995 243 0.000066354 243 -100%
1996 319 0.000087464 319 -100%
1997 292 0.000080535 292 -100%
1998 314 0.000085368 314 -100%
1999 406 0.000109912 406 -100%
2000 475 0.000125665 475 -100%
2001 466 0.000124486 466 -100%
2002 448 0.000119841 448 -100%
2003 429 0.000112826 429 -100%
2004 454 0.000118819 454 -100%
2005 424 0.000110278 424 -100%
2006 443 0.000111976 443 -100%
2007 448 0.000112065 448 -100%
2008 443 0.000112704 443 -100%
2009 446 0.000116749 446 -100%
2010 476 0.000128797 476 -100%
2011 477 0.000130407 477 -100%
2012 540 0.000147647 540 -100%
2013 510 0.000139892 510 -100%
2014 501 0.000135172 501 -100%
2015 590 0.00015942 590 -100%
2016 582 0.000158639 582 -100%
2017 558 0.000156032 558 -100%
2018 523 0.000148753 523 -100%
2019 462 0.000133105 462 -100%
2020 423 0.000126625 423 -100%
2021 397 0.00011718 397 -100%
2022 410 0.000121189 410 -100%
2023 419 0.00012654 419 -100%
2024 392 0.000117771 392 -100%

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  4. Ahmaya
  5. Ahmazi
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  8. Ahmeen
  9. Ahmeer
  10. Ahmeir
  11. Ahmeira