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Ahmet: what the name means and its Turkish ranks, 2018–2025
Our documented meaning for Ahmet as more praiseworthy, its language entries, and TÜİK boys' ranks for each year from 2018 to 2025, from eighth to twenty-fourth.
Ahmet was in TÜİK’s national top-30 list for boys in every year from 2018 to 2025, starting at eighth place and ending at twenty-fourth. This guide sets out what our database records about its meaning, the languages where we list it, and its rank in each year.
What the name means
Our stored meaning for Ahmet is more praiseworthy; most praiseworthy, with the confidence level documented. The literal entry gives the Arabic ʾaḥmad, an elative form of ḥamīd, meaning praiseworthy. Our database holds one meaning entry for Ahmet, with no alternatives recorded.
Our summary describes Ahmet as the Turkish spelling of the Arabic name Ahmad, and our database has an entry for Ahmad. The summary also notes two Uyghur spellings, ئەخمەت and ئەھمەد, and a Kazakh form, Ахмет.
Where the name is used
Our table lists Ahmet for five languages: Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Turkish, Turkmen and Uyghur. The usage status is recorded as in use for Turkmen and as unknown for the others.
How often it was given in Turkey, 2018–2025
In TÜİK’s boys’ top-30 lists, Ahmet ranked as follows:
- 2018: rank 8, count 4,821
- 2019: rank 10, count 4,074
- 2020: rank 12, count 3,825
- 2021: rank 11, count 3,645
- 2022: rank 16, count 3,399
- 2023: rank 18, count 2,847
- 2024: rank 22, count 2,579
- 2025: rank 24, count 2,280
The count fell in every year from 2018 to 2025. The rank moved down in every year except 2021, when it rose from twelfth to eleventh. It was in the top ten in 2018 and 2019 only. Its rank was lowest in 2025, at twenty-fourth, and its count was lowest in that year too. Its count in 2025, 2,280, was 2,541 lower than in 2018, when it stood at 4,821.
Where the data comes from
Ranks and counts come from TÜİK’s name statistics page, which covers the most-given newborn names for 2018–2025. Our chart uses the same national top-30 lists, and a year without a point means the name was not in that year’s top 30. The counts are births in those top-30 lists, not all births in Turkey. Meanings and languages come from our own database, and confidence levels are shown as stored.
Sources
- TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) – newborn-name lists, 2018–2025