Hammad
#5,466 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hammad has been given to 527 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #5,466 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Hammad, 2025
1 in 195,000
Hammad over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Hammad?
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
- #5,466
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hammad sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hammad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hammads were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hammad was born before 2009 — so the typical Hammad is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 30.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 527
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (162).
Is Hammad 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
- −530
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,149
- Places dropped
- 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
- 68.0%
- Peak was 2002 (25)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.9% average annual change
Spellings of Hammad
Hammad is not the most common spelling — Muhammad is, with 27.5% against Hammad's 0.66%.
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 Hammad is used
Across 1910–2025, Hammad was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 887,244 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in —
- 2New Jersey1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Hammad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Hammad around the world
Where Hammad 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 & Wales1996–2025#1,197in 2025
- Scotland2002–2020#711in 2020
- France2018–2025#6,201in 2025
- Canada2000–2024#2,328in 2024
- South Australia2007–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.
Hammad by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Hammad
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hammad
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.