Given name & surname
Ahmet
Ahmet is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ahmet is a variant of Ahmed. An origin associated with Ahmed is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish احمد (ahmed), from Arabic أَحْمَد.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1959. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ahmet through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 660
- 660 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 38 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #7,693 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −19%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,693 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 19.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 38 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,435 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ahmet’s family of names
Ahmet has a related form in Ahmed. In Turkish usage, Ahmet has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ahmed. In Turkish usage, Ahmet has a conventional equivalent in the German form Ahmad.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ahmet has relatives in 6 languages.
7 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- AhmadGerman
- Ahmatequivalent
- Ахметequivalent
- ΑχμέτGreek
- EhmedKurdish
- AchmedGerman
- Axmetequivalent
- Akhmetequivalent
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People named Ahmet
- Ahmet DavutoğluTurkish statesperson and writer (born 1959)
- Ahmet Necdet Sezer10th President of Turkey (born 1941)
- Kenan EvrenPresident of Turkey (1917–2015)
- Zog IAlbanian prime minister, president and king (1895-1961) (r.1922-1939)
- Midhat PashaOttoman grand vizier, reformist, and creator of the first Ottoman constitution (1822-1883)
- Ahmet Tevfik PashaTurkish statesperson (1845–1936)
- Ahmet ErtegunTurkish-American businessperson (1923–2006)
- Ahmet Hamdi TanpınarTurkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist (1901–1962)
- Ahmet KayaTurkish-Kurdish singer1957–2000
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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