Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Amad is a variant of Ahmed. An origin associated with Ahmed is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Amad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 359
- 359 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −88%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 585 as a first name in 2020; 168 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Amad’s family of names
Amad has a related form in Ahmed. In Tausug usage, Amad has a related form in AKMAD.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amad
- Amad DialloIvorian association football player (born 2002)
- Amad Al-HosniOmani football playerborn 1984
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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