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Hisham

#4,307 in 2025Boys' name

Generous

Hisham has been given to 926 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #4,307 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Hisham, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hisham: meaning, origin, and history

Generous

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hisham means

Hisham means “generous”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 926 boys were recorded with the name Hisham between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,023 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,520 in 2020 to #4,307 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,017 in 2015 to #4,307 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.

How common is Hisham?

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
#4,307
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hisham 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 Hisham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hishams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hisham was born before 2007 — so the typical Hisham is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
926
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (253).

Is Hisham 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
−387
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−787
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−290
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.5%
Peak was 2016 (39)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,023
2016

Spellings of Hisham

Hisham is not the most common spelling — Hiram is, with 54.1% against Hisham's 3.5%.

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 Hisham is used

Across 1910–2025, Hisham was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 543,807 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Hisham has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hisham around the world

Where Hisham 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
    #1,406
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2000–2000
    #429
    in 2000
  • France
    1981–2025
    #4,880
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2022
    #1,705
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1984–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Hisham by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,307
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 787
Best rank ever
#3,023
2016
Peak year
2016
39 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
926
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Hisham

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

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Sibling names for Hisham

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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