Ahmad

At the 2020 census, 22,586 Americans bore the surname Ahmad — 1,553rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,200.

By the numbers

People: 22,586
Rank: 1,553rd
How common: 1 in 13,200
Per 100,000: 7.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic, Persian

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ahmad described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 63.8%
White, not Hispanic 21.2%
Black, not Hispanic 6.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Ahmad

Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911–1984)Pakistani Urdu poet and author
Tontowi Ahmad (born 1987)Indonesian badminton player
Fandi Ahmad (born 1962)Singaporean footballer
Yasmin Ahmad (1958–2009)Malaysian film director
Evin Ahmad (born 1990)Kurdish-Swedish actress and author
Hammadi Ahmad (born 1989)Iraqi footballer
Rana Ahmad (born 1985)Syrian activist
Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad (born 1939)Grand Mufti of India, Nepal, Bhutan and other countries living Indian origins

People named Ahmad with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ahmad

Ahmed
Ahmadi

Also a first name

Ahmad has been given to 20,366 American babies as a first name since 1950, peaking in 2001. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.