Ahmet
The boy's name Ahmet has been in the national records since 1959, with 660 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 7,679th. About 650 Ahmets are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Ahmet
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 660
- Estimated living today
- 650
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2015
- Best rank
- 3,022nd
- Rank in 2025
- 7,679th
- First recorded
- 1959
How old the living Ahmets are
born that year still alive today
Of the 660 babies given the name since 1959, about 650 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Ahmets
- Ahmet Davutoğlu (born 1959)Turkish statesperson and writer
- Ahmet Necdet Sezer (born 1941)10th President of Turkey
- Ahmet Tevfik Okday (1845–1936)Turkish statesperson
- Ahmet İzzet Furgaç (1864–1937)Turkish military officer and statesperson
- Ahmet Kaya (1957–2000)Turkish-Kurdish singer
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901–1962)Turkish writer
- Ahmet Ertegün (1923–2006)Turkish-American businessperson
- Ahmet Çalık (1994–2022)Turkish association football player
People named Ahmet with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ahmet is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ahmet is most concentrated in New York (8.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2015
The most popular boys’ names the year Ahmet peaked:
Ahmet elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Ahmet | 2,795 | 518th |
| Belgium boys | Ahmet | 724 | 287th |
| England and Wales boys | Ahmet | 510 | 1,210th |
| Norway boys | Ahmet | 308 | 326th |
| Switzerland boys | Ahmet | 247 | 448th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ahmet: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Ahmet | 206 | 0.017% | 385th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Ahmet | 36 | 0.008% | 333rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Ahmet | 5 | 0.008% | 113th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Ahmet is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.07% of children were given it – 27 of them.
Ahmet: rank by region
In 2025, Ahmet was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ahmet | 642 | 8 |
In 2021, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ahmet appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (259th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ahmet by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 70 | 236th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ahmet among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Ahmet | 1,809 | 2,238 |
| Finland boys | Ahmet | 97 | 118 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Ahmet against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.