Where does “Ahmed” come from?

Ahmed is an English name derived from Arabic أَحْمَد, from Arabic حَمِدَ meaning to praise, ultimately from Proto-Semitic šamaʿ-.

Ancestry of “Ahmed”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Arabic	أَحْمَد	Ahmed
2	Classical Persian	جَان	—
3	Middle Persian	𐫃𐫏𐫀𐫗	—
4	Proto-Iranian	*wyaHnáH	—
5	Proto-Indo-Iranian	wyaHnás	—
6	Proto-Indo-European	h₂enh₁‑	—