Given name & surname

Ehmed

“to thank or to praise”

Ehmed is a surname from Arabic. It is used in Northern Kurdish and Zazaki.

Original Arabicأَحْمَد

Meaning & origin

What it means

Ehmed goes back to Arabic أَحْمَد, meaning “to thank or to praise.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Ehmed comes from Arabic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Arabic أَحْمَد.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Ehmed’s family of names

In Northern Kurdish usage, Ehmed has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ahmed. In Kurdish usage, Ehmed has a conventional equivalent in the German form Ahmad. In Kurdish usage, Ehmed has a conventional equivalent in the Turkish form Ahmet.

Walk Ehmed’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Ehmed has relatives in 44 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.

GermanGreekRussianArabicUyghurTamilThai

Arabicwhere Ehmed comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

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