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Ahmari vs Ahmet

American parents have registered 1,857 Ahmaris since 1880, against 660 Ahmets. Ahmari is still ahead, with 67 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ahmari against Ahmet, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ahmari Ahmet

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 44 years in which either name was published, Ahmari for 30 years and Ahmet for 14 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Ahmari Ahmet
Total US births 1,857660
Most in one year 9838
Babies in 2025 6710
Estimated living today 1,800650
Median age today 1115
Peak year 20222015
Best rank 1,907th boys3,022nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,304th7,679th
First recorded 19951959
Girls / boys 468 / 1,3890 / 660

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ahmets alive today are over 15; half the Ahmaris are over 11. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ahmari and Ahmet.