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Hamza

#541 in 2025Boys' name

Lion

Hamza has been given to 10,573 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #541 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 565 recorded.

Babies named Hamza, 2025

1 in 5,960

Hamza over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hamza: meaning, origin, and history

Lion

Arabic

What Hamza means

Hamza means “lion”, associated with ḥamza.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Arabic حَمْزَة (ḥamza, literally “lion”), from the Arabic root ح م ز (ḥ m z).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Hamza is used in English, Albanian and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Hamza comes through Arabic حَمْزَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,573 boys were recorded with the name Hamza between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 565 in 2024; its best national rank was #527 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #660 in 2020 to #541 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #616 in 2015 to #541 in 2025.

How common is Hamza?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,960
556 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,070
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#541
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,134 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hamza 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 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,134 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hamza. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hamzas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hamza was born before 2014 — so the typical Hamza is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,573
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (3,928).

Is Hamza 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
−14
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+119
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+75
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.28×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
98.4%
Peak was 2024 (565)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#527
2024

Spellings of Hamza

Hamza is the most-used spelling, taking 49.1% of the 21,537 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Hamza is used

Across 2016–2025, Hamza was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 775 boys, against 1 in 3,222 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 50,000).

2129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 775
  2. 2New York1 in 1,563
  3. 3Virginia1 in 1,667
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 1,724
  5. 5Illinois1 in 1,961
  6. 6Michigan1 in 2,174
  7. 7Ohio1 in 2,439
  8. 8Washington1 in 2,439

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.

Geographically, Hamza is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 94% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Hamza around the world

Where Hamza 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
    #129
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1989–2025
    #226
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2025–2025
    #395
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1996–2025
    #272
    in 2025
  • France
    1955–2025
    #132
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #232
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #181
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1998–2013
    #317
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Notable people named Hamza

People whose public names include Hamza, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Hamza by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#541
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 119
Best rank ever
#527
2024
Peak year
2024
565 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,573
Count in 2025
556

Names similar to Hamza

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

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Names with a curve like Hamza

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hamza, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KylanZainSincereJamirAlessandroSorenGianniYosefKianYusufCannonAlijah

Sibling names for Hamza

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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