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Hamid

#5,465 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Hamid has been given to 928 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #5,465 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Hamid, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hamid: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Arabic

What Hamid means

Hamid has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: “praiseworthy” and “praiser [of god]”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hamid is used in English and Albanian. Its origins include Arabic.

Hamid comes through Arabic حَمِيد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 928 boys were recorded with the name Hamid between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2021; its best national rank was #2,442 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,081 in 2020 to #5,465 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,811 in 2015 to #5,465 in 2025.

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 Hamid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,465
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hamid 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hamid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hamids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hamid was born before 2002 — so the typical Hamid is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
21.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
928
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 21.3% of all recorded uses (198).

Is Hamid 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
+1,956
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+616
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,346
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.42×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.7%
Peak was 2021 (28)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,442
1983

Spellings of Hamid

Hamid is not the most common spelling — David is, with 93.1% against Hamid's 0.02%.

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 Hamid is used

Across 1910–2025, Hamid was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 475,882 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 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. Hamid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hamid around the world

Where Hamid 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
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • France
    1930–2025
    #2,012
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2011
    #481
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Hamid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,465
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 616
Best rank ever
#2,442
1983
Peak year
2021
28 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
928
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Hamid

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

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Sibling names for Hamid

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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