The Ahmadi surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,285 people carried this name — #13,344 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 129,900 people counted. That is up 48% from 1,548 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Ahmadi surname
Borrowed from Arabic أَحْمَدِيّ (ʔaḥmadiyy) or Persian احمدی. By surface analysis, Ahmad + -i.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Ahmadi» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
1,616 people named Ahmadi live in Switzerland.
They live in all 26 of Switzerland’s cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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 Belgium’s population register
At least 1,141 people named Ahmadi live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 51 people named Ahmadi.
Most of them — 34 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 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 Poland’s population register
20 people named Ahmadi have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 90 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in 5 of Poland’s 16 voivodeships, most of all in Łódź.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In the Nordic population registers
4,965 people named Ahmadi are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
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) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Ahmadi in American newspapers,
1859–1963.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 35 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Ahmadi,
with a public archive behind them.
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Morteza Ahmadi 1924–2014 · actor -
Ahmadreza Ahmadi 1940–2023 · screenwriter -
Marzieh Ahmadi-Oskui 1941–1974 · writer -
Manouchehr Ahmadi 1946– · actor -
Latif Ahmadi 1950– · film director
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 86 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ahmadi.
- Aguirre 79,517 · U.S. census
- Agus 160 · U.S. census
- Agusti 109 · U.S. census
- Ahamed 550 · U.S. census
- Ahee 214 · U.S. census
- Ahmad 16,291 · U.S. census
- Ahmed 48,319 · U.S. census
- Ahr 524 · U.S. census
- Ahrens 10,182 · U.S. census
- Aich 170 · U.S. census
- Aid 123 · U.S. census
- Aiello 8,927 · U.S. census
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