Ahmed

At the 2020 census, 74,458 Americans bore the surname Ahmed — 437th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,014.

By the numbers

People: 74,458
Rank: 437th
How common: 1 in 4,014
Per 100,000: 24.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 52.8%
Black, not Hispanic 25.5%
White, not Hispanic 16.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Ahmed

Abiy Ahmed (born 1976)Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018
Iajuddin Ahmed (1931–2012)former president of Bangladesh
Riz Ahmed (born 1982)British actor and rapper
Sara Ahmed (born 1969)British-Australian scholar
Shahabuddin Ahmed (1930–2022)President of Bangladesh
Leila Ahmed (born 1940)Egyptian-American writer and professor
Ali Ahmed (born 2000)Canadian soccer player
Homam Ahmed (born 1999)Qatari association football player

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

Surnames like Ahmed

Ahmad
Ahmadi

Also a first name

Ahmed has been given to 17,282 American babies as a first name since 1929, peaking in 2015. 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.