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Hamdi

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Praise

Hamdi has been given to 530 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 25 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% girls, 25% boys all-time.

Babies named Hamdi, 2024

1 in 304,000

Hamdi over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Hamdi over time

In 2024, Hamdi went to 58% girls and 42% boys.

19882024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Hamdi: meaning, origin, and history

Praise

Arabic

What Hamdi means

Hamdi means “praise”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hamdi is used in Arabic and Turkish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈħam.diː/ for Hamdi.

Origin, language, and formation

Hamdi is used in Albanian and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Hamdi comes through Arabic حَمْدِي.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 396 girls were recorded with the name Hamdi between 1996 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2016; its best national rank was #5,349 in 2016.

In the United States, 134 boys were recorded with the name Hamdi between 1988 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2005; its best national rank was #6,588 in 1994.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hamdi?

Hamdi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 304,000
11 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 147,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
210,642 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hamdi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 210,642 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hamdi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hamdis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hamdi was born before 2011 — so the typical Hamdi is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
396
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (178).

Is Hamdi 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2016 (25)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,349
2016

Spellings of Hamdi

Hamdi is not the most common spelling — Heidi is, with 42.6% against Hamdi's 0.11%.

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 Hamdi is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Hamdi was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 135,234 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 33,333
  2. 2Ohio1 in —
  3. 3Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Hamdi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Hamdi is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Hamdi was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Hamdi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hamdi around the world

Where Hamdi 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
    1997–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • Norway
    1880–2011
    #494
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1994–2000
    #1,996
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hamdi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,349
2016
Peak year
2016
25 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
396
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,588
1994
Peak year
2005
10 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
134
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hamdi

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

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Sibling names for Hamdi

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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