Hamid
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hamʲɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hamid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Morocco it is the 37th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 373(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 441
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 737
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hamid itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 340 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 373 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hamit in TR Türkiye and Hameed in PK Pakistan.
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)
praised, commended, praiseworthy, commendable. Al-Hameed s..=1!, the All-laudable: one of the names of Allah. ayes (i di! Gl |galely "And know that Allah is free of all wants and worthy of all praise." (surat al-Bagarah 2:267). See Mahmud 3 52-0
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hamid is read(measured from records)
Hamid is one spelling over 5 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.
- Hindi16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hamid in Hindi.
- English15%
A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic13%
praised, commended, praiseworthy, commendable. Al-Hameed s..=1!, the All-laudable: one of the names of Allah. ayes (i di! Gl |galely "And know that Allah is free of all wants and worthy of all praise." (surat al-Bagarah 2:267). See Mahmud 3 52-0
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Thanking God
as a nameThe book of African names
- French9.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hamid in French.
- Urdu6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hamid in Urdu.
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 in the world(measured from records)
Hamid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #222 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 9 | Hameed | 137 |
| MA Morocco | #37 | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 373 | — | Hamid | 120 |
| AF Afghanistan | #62 | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 441 | — | Hamid | 23 |
| DZ Algeria | #40 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 737 | — | Hamid | 71 |
| TR Türkiye | #191 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | #100 | Hamit | 91 |
| ES Spain | #646 | 6,063 | 1 in 8.2K | 6.1K | Hamid | 61 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 1.8K | — | 2 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Hamid is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a personal name based on Arabic hdmid ‘praising’, ‘praiser (of Allah)’, or hantld ‘praised’, ‘praiseworthy’ . Al-Hamid ‘the All-Laudable’ is an attribute of Allah. The name 'Abd-ul-Hamid means ‘servant of the All-Laudable’. The root hmd ‘praise’ is one of the most common elements in Arabic name forming; in addition to this name, it also lies behind names such as Ahmad and Muhammad.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Toledo
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Swedish, Hamid är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’prisad, berömvärd’ medan Hamed (från Haamid) betyder ’den som prisar’. En femininform är Hamida.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Hamad bin Said Al Busaidib. 1800OMnot in their usual nameIman of Oman
- Hamid Gulb. 1936PKPakistani general (1936–2015)
- Hamid Algabidb. 1941NENigerien politician
- Hamid Alidoustib. 1956IRIranian football player and manager
- Hamid Karzaib. 1957AFPresident of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014
- Abu Omar al-Baghdadib. 1959IQnot in their usual nameFirst leader of the Islamic State of Iraq (1959–2010)
- Hamid Baghaeib. 1969IRIranian politician
- Hamid Reza Estilib. 1971IRIranian footballer
- Hamid Sourianb. 1985IRIranian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Hamid Ismailb. 1987QAQatari footballer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 107 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.1K | #780 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.3K | #388 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 227 | #1,972 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2024 | 1 | — |
Reference works 12
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Hamid come from?
- praised, commended, praiseworthy, commendable. Al-Hameed s..=1!, the All-laudable: one of the names of Allah. Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Hamid?
- A machine transcription gives /hamʲɪd/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Hamid mean?
- In English, A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims.
- Is Hamid a male or female name?
- Hamid is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Hamid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 140 thousand people named Hamid in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hameed.
- How common is the name Hamid?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6,063 people named Hamid, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Hamid compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Hamid is the 222nd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hamid?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hamidThe 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, “Hamid” — the 222nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.