Ahad

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ahad: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ahad: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #506 in 2004, and it stood at #576 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#506highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1765
1997	#1257
1998	#1821
1999	#2943
2000	#2142
2001	#1595
2002	#1799
2003	#1092
2004	#1110
2005	#1095
2006	#1224
2007	#1361
2008	#1048
2009	#1008
2010	#1344
2011	#1251
2012	#1430
2013	#1706
2014	#1630
2015	#1442
2016	#1187
2017	#1097
2018	#786
2019	#678
2020	#611
2021	#632
2022	#632
2023	#1042
2024	#576

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2022: #632 among boys in England and Wales, #657 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1765 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2004–2022
Highest recorded position: #506 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2004 (recorded 2004–2022).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #576 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Ahad appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 685 births with the name.

Ahad across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ahad's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1765 (1996)	#576 (2024)	#576 (2024)	29 of 29	685 (1996–2024)	66 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#506 (2004)	#506 (2004)	#657 (2022)	3 of 19	11 (2004–2022)	4 (2020)

Ahad by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ahad in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	4 of 10	6
2000s	155	10 of 10	16
2010s	239	10 of 10	24
2020sbusiest	266	5 of 10	53

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 53 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 38, from 28 to 66.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ahad appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #506 in Republic of Ireland in 2004.

Ahad's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#576	66	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1042	28	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#632	56	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#632	58	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#611	58	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#678	50	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#786	41	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1097	26	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1187	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1442	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1630	14	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1706	13	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1430	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1251	20	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1344	18	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1008	26	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1048	24	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1361	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1224	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1095	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1110	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1092	16	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1595	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1257	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #506, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 66 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 8 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Boluwatife · #506, 25y
Chidera · #506, 24y
Danish · #506, 29y
Ely · #506, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Boluwatife · #506, 25y
Chesney · #506, 13y
Chidera · #506, 24y
Danish · #506, 29y

Ahad was ranked #506 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2004. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ahad and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ahad without appearing here.

Ahad moved ahead of

Rune Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2943 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1110 and #3651.
Rodney Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1361 and #1361 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1048 and #3158.
Anders Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1799 and #1519 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1092 and #2857.
Tayla Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1799 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1092 and #2857.

Moved ahead of Ahad

Cooper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1092 and #1248 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1110 and #731.
Hunter Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1048 and #1085 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1008 and #848.
Hudson Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1110 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1095 and #982.
Tadhg Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1344 and #1551 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #1251 and #1251.

Moved the opposite way to Ahad

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ahad went from #1765 to #576 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ahad went from #1765 to #576 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ahad went from #1765 to #576 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ahad went from #1765 to #576 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Ahad

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ahad went from #1765 to #576 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ahad went from #1765 to #576 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ahad went from #1765 to #576 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ahad went from #1765 to #576 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #506 in Republic of Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ahad

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ahad across 2 official records

Ahad by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Ahad across 2 official records

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