Hammas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Courageous,
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hammas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 165K(measured from records)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 174K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
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.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 165K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Courageous,
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hammas 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.
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)
Hammas is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Estonian, tooth (bone formation in the mouth of a person or animal for grabbing and grinding food)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, tooth (hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, nominative/accusative plural of hamm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In krl, superseded spelling of hammaš
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, tooth
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 71 | #20,292 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 47 | #13,301 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #35,405 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Hammas mean, and where does it come from?
- Courageous, Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names.
- In which country does Hammas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 196 people named Hammas in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hammas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hammas is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 165 thousand people — even though Saudi Arabia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hammas?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 71 people named Hammas in 2008, about 1 in 165 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hammasThe 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, “Hammas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.