Ahlaam
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-LAAM
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Ahlaam is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “dreams”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Ahlaam mean?
Arabic: spelling of Ahlam; plural of hulm, 'dream'
“dreams”
Meaning borrowed from Ahlam.
Is Ahlaam a girl's or a boy's name?
Ahlaam is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ahlaam in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 8 girls.
Half of all the girls named Ahlaam in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ahlaam in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 8 | #2,909 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 7 | #3,060 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
How popular is Ahlaam in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Ahlaam, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Ahlaam in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ahlaam in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
Names like Ahlaam
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Zainab Ayah Abeeha Aaliyah Hafsa Nusaybah Safaa Rahma Hiba Aafiyah Ruqayyah
Names related to Ahlaam
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ahlaam: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ahlaam, updated 20 October 2026.