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)
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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 & CulturesƏhməd(Azerbaijani) Ahmed(Bosnian) Akhmad(Chechen) Ahmed(Dhivehi) Aamadu(Fula) Ahmadu(Hausa) Akhmad(Ingush) Ehmed(Kurdish) Akmad(Maguindanao) Axmed(Somali) Akmad(Tausug) Ahmed, Ahmet, Hamit(Turkish) Ehmet(Uyghur) Amadou, Amadu(Western African)
Surname DescendantsAhmad, Ahmed(Arabic) Ahmad, Ahmed(Bengali) Ahmad, Ahmed(Urdu)
Same SpellingƏhməd

Popularity

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Categories

architects, baseball players, Moroccan sultans, top 10 in Afghanistan, top 10 in Indonesia, top 10 in Iran, top 10 in Lebanon, top 10 in Malaysia
Entry updated November 20, 2020