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Hamad

#4,300 in 2025Boys' name

Praise

Hamad has been given to 528 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #4,300 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Hamad, 2025

1 in 138,000

Hamad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hamad: meaning, origin, and history

Praise

Arabic

What Hamad means

Hamad means “praise”, associated with ḥamida.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَد (ḥamad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “praise”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Hamad (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Hamad is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Hamad comes through Arabic حَمَد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 528 boys were recorded with the name Hamad between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2014; its best national rank was #3,324 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,757 in 2020 to #4,300 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,612 in 2015 to #4,300 in 2025.

How common is Hamad?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,300
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hamad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hamad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hamads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hamad was born before 2013 — so the typical Hamad is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
528
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Choose a decade

2010s — 42.4% of all recorded uses (224).

Is Hamad rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,700
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,457
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−688
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.7%
Peak was 2014 (33)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,324
2014

Spellings of Hamad

Hamad is not the most common spelling — Lamar is, with 18.6% against Hamad's 0.29%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hamad is used

Across 1910–2025, Hamad was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,046,411 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hamad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hamad around the world

Where Hamad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #4,363
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–1985
    #449
    in 1985

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hamad by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,300
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,457
Best rank ever
#3,324
2014
Peak year
2014
33 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
528
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Hamad

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hamad

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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