Ahmad

Gender Masculine

Usage Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Pashto, Indonesian, Malay, Avar

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

Popularity

People think this name is

classic mature formal strong simple

Categories

architects, baseball players, folk heroes, greatness, Moroccan sultans, praise, success, top 10 in Afghanistan, top 10 in Indonesia, top 10 in Iran, top 10 in Lebanon, top 10 in Malaysia

Entry updated June 9, 2023