Hamada
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Japanese: ‘seashore rice paddy’; found in the island of Shikoku and in the Ryukyu Islands. Several unrelated families bearing this name descend from the Fujiwara, Taira, Kikuchi, Arakida, and other clans
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Hamada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 94th most common surname.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- YTMayotte≈1 in 2.3K
- BHBahrain≈1 in 2.8Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈76,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘seashore rice paddy’; found in the island of Shikoku and in the Ryukyu Islands. Several unrelated families bearing this name descend from the Fujiwara, Taira, Kikuchi, Arakida, and other clans.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hamada is read
(measured from records)Hamada is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic46%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hamada in Arabic.
- Japanese19%
‘seashore rice paddy’; found in the island of Shikoku and in the Ryukyu Islands. Several unrelated families bearing this name descend from the Fujiwara, Taira, Kikuchi, Arakida, and other clans.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- English12%
A high, desert landscape from which most of the sand has been removed by wind erosion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hamada in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Hamada is found
(measured from records)Hamada counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #94 | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Hamada | 120 |
| SY Syria | #292 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Hamada | 25 |
| DZ Algeria | #514 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | listed | Hamada | 35 |
| MA Morocco | #380 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Hamada | 41 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Hamada | 61 |
| US United States | — | 1,965 | 1 in 169K | 2K | Hamada | 134 |
| KW Kuwait | #517 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Hamada | 34 |
| BH Bahrain | #185 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Hamada | 24 |
| YT Mayotte | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 5 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Hamada is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hausa, desert
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Walter Hamadab. 1968USAmerican film producer and executive
- Mido Hamadab. 1971EGGerman-Egyptian actor in film, theatre and television
- Kenji Hamadab. 1972JPJapanese voice actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hamada mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘seashore rice paddy’; found in the island of Shikoku and in the Ryukyu Islands. Several unrelated families bearing this name descend from the Fujiwara, Taira, Kikuchi, Arakida, and other clans. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hamada?
- Mondonomo estimates about 76 thousand people named Hamada in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hamada. After it come Syria, Algeria, Morocco and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hamada?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,965 people named Hamada in 2010, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.
- How common is Hamada compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Hamada is the 94th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hamadaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hamada” — the 94th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.