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Ahmad name meaning

“most praiseworthy”

Letters
5
Syllables
2
First letter
A
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1940s: 16.7%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s16.7%
1950s14%
1960s8.1%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s6.1%
354

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Ahmad

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: AMeaning faithArabic origin

Ahmad is a boy's name from Arabic meaning 'most praiseworthy'.

What does Ahmad mean?

Most praiseworthy

In Malay: paling terpuji

#Faith#Gratitude

Sources (1)

About the name Ahmad

Ahmad is the Arabic name أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), an elative form of ḥamīd, 'praiseworthy', sharing the root ḥ-m-d with Muhammad. It is mentioned in Islamic tradition as a name of the Prophet Muhammad. Other spellings include Akhmad and Achmad. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1950s with 6,162 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic
Rootح م د · ḥ-m-d
SyllablesAh-mad
First letterMalay Names starting with A
Arabic scriptأحمد
Devanagari scriptअहमद

Ahmad in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 3,401 · 16.7%
1950s
Boy: 6,162 · 14%
1960s
Boy: 4,330 · 8.1%
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
Boy: 3,068 · 6.1%
People registered with Ahmad as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Ahmad

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Ahmad · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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