The Ahamed surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 550 people carried this name — #39,887 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is up 44% from 382 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Ahamed surname
Variant of Ahmad.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Ahamed» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 95 people named Ahamed.
Most of them — 62 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Mayotte.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
56 people named Ahamed live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
68 people named Ahamed is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Ahamed,
with a public archive behind them.
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Borhan Ahamed Brihan d. 2021 · singer
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E. Ahamed 1938–2017 · politician
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E. Ahamed 1938–2017 · politician
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E. Ahamed 1938–2017 · politician
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Syed V. Ahamed 1938–
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Mohammed Ahamed 1985– · association football player
Wikidata (CC0) · 7 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ahamed.
- Aguilera 31,581 · U.S. census
- Aguillon 3,076 · U.S. census
- Aguilo 205 · U.S. census
- Aguirre 79,517 · U.S. census
- Agus 160 · U.S. census
- Agusti 109 · U.S. census
- Ahee 214 · U.S. census
- Ahmad 16,291 · U.S. census
- Ahmadi 2,285 · U.S. census
- Ahmed 48,319 · U.S. census
- Ahr 524 · U.S. census
- Ahrens 10,182 · U.S. census
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