Humzah
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Humzah has been given to 166 babies in the U.S. since 1995. 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 1999, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Humzah, 2023
1 in 663,000
Humzah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Humzah?
Humzah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Humzah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Humzah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Humzahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Humzah was born before 2005 — so the typical Humzah is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 166
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (83).
Is Humzah 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1999 (12)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.2% average annual change
Spellings of Humzah
Humzah is not the most common spelling — Hamza is, with 77.7% against Humzah's 1.2%.
Humzah around the world
Where Humzah 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 & Wales1996–2023#3,113in 2023
- Canada2005–2012#2,715in 2012
- South Australia2003–2003#588in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Humzah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Humzah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Humzah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.