Given name & surname · Arabic
أحمد
“praiseworthy; benign”
أحمد (ʔaḥmad) is a masculine given name. It is used in Arabic.
ArabicWritten in Arabic script, read right to left. In English: ʾaḥmed.
Meaning & origin
What it means
أحمد goes back to a word meaning “praiseworthy; benign.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
أحمد’s family of names
In Arabic usage, أحمد has a diminutive in حمودة. In Arabic usage, أحمد has a transliteration in ʔaḥmad. In Arabic usage, أحمد has a transliteration in ʾaḥmed.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Ahmadequivalent
- Ahmedequivalent
- Amadouequivalent
- Ahmetequivalent
- Amaduequivalent
- Əhmədequivalent
- Ahmatequivalent
- АхмедRussian
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People named أحمد
- Ahmad ibn HanbalMuslim jurist and theologian (780–855)
- Ibn TaymiyyaIslamic scholar, jurist and philosopher (1263–1328)
- Ahmed ZewailEgyptian chemist1946–2016
- Ahmad Shah Durranifounder of the Afghan Durrani Empire (r. 1747–1772)1722–1772
- Abu Musab al-ZarqawiJordanian jihadist (1966–2006)
- Al-Ma'arrimedieval Arab poet and thinker973–1057
- Maulana AzadIndian politician and writer (1888–1958)
- Ahmad ibn Fadlan10th-century Arab traveller and ethnographer879
- Ahmed Hassan al-BakrIraqi president (1914–1982)
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