Gender Masculine
Scripts أحمد(Arabic) احمد(Persian, Urdu, Pashto) আহমদ(Bengali) Ахӏмад(Avar)
Pronounced Pron. AH-mad(Arabic, Indonesian, Malay) ah-MAD(Persian)  [key·IPA]

Meaning & History

Means "most commendable, most praiseworthy" in Arabic (a superlative form of Hamid 1).

Related Names

VariantsAhmed, Hameed, Hamid(Arabic) Ahmed(Urdu) Ahmed(Bengali) Ahmed(Pashto) Akhmad(Indonesian)
Feminine FormsHamida, Hamidah(Arabic) Hamide, Hamideh(Persian) Hamida(Bengali) Hamidah(Indonesian) Hamidah(Malay)
Other Languages & CulturesHamit(Albanian) Əhməd(Azerbaijani) Akhmat(Bashkir) Ahmed(Bosnian) Akhmad(Chechen) Ahmed(Dhivehi) Aamadu(Fula) Ahmadu(Hausa) Akhmad(Ingush) Akhmet(Kazakh) Ehmed(Kurdish) Akmat(Kyrgyz) Akmad(Maguindanao) Axmed(Somali) Akhmat(Tatar) Akmad(Tausug) Ahmed, Ahmet, Hamit(Turkish) Ehmet(Uyghur) Amadou, Amadu(Western African)
Surname DescendantsAhmad, Ahmed(Arabic) Ahmad, Ahmed(Bengali) Ahmadi(Persian) Ahmad, Ahmed(Urdu)
Same SpellingƏhməd

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Entry updated June 9, 2023