Hamza
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: 25 (hamzah): lion.'*’ Uncle (d.625) of Muhammad (s) who was known as ‘Lion of Allah and His Prophet’!** on account of his bravery in battles
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hamzˈa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hamza is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Algeria it is the 3rd most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 148(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 295
- PKPakistan≈1 in 349
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 148 (inferred from the name graph)
≈670,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
25 (hamzah): lion.'*’ Uncle (d.625) of Muhammad (s) who was known as ‘Lion of Allah and His Prophet’!** on account of his bravery in battles
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hamza is read(measured from records)
Hamza 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.
- Turkish50%
1. Aslan, güçlü adam. 2. İslam tarihinde Hz. Muhammed'in amcası.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Arabic17%
25 (hamzah): lion.'*’ Uncle (d.625) of Muhammad (s) who was known as ‘Lion of Allah and His Prophet’!** on account of his bravery in battles
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
lion. Name of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle.
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
steadfast, strong; Arabic name linked to Hamza b. Abi Talib.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- French9.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hamza in French.
- English5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hamza in English.
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)
Hamza 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 | #475 | ≈670,000 est. | ≈1 in 349 | listed | Hamza | 115 |
| MA Morocco | #6 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 148 | — | Hamza | 155 |
| DZ Algeria | #3 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 295 | — | Hamza | 93 |
| NG Nigeria | #759 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Hamza | 64 |
| TR Türkiye | #133 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 763 | 2.3K | Hamza | 100 |
| SY Syria | #69 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 433 | — | Hamza | 49 |
| TN Tunisia | #8 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 368 | — | Hamza | 99 |
| ES Spain | — | 11,740 | 1 in 4.3K | 12K | Hamza | 87 |
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: TÜİK NIP — newborn names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Hamza is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Ancient name, probably meaning ‘steadfast’. Hana’ 9 ‘Bliss’, ‘happiness’, ‘well-being’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Hamza (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn som möjligen betyder ’styrka, kraft; lejon’. En känd namnbärare är profeten Muhammeds farbror Hamza ibn ’Abd al-Muttalib, omtalad för sin tapperhet.
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)
- Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalibb. 568SAMuhammad's companion and uncle (c. 568–625)
- Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmadb. 985IRFounding leader of the Druze
- Ibn al-Qalanisib. 1071SYnot in their usual nameArab historian (1073-1160)
- Hamza al-Ghamdib. 1980SA9/11 hijacker (1980–2001)
- Hamza bin Ladenb. 1989SAkey member of al-Qaeda
- Hamza Al-Dardourb. 1991JOfootballer
- Hamza Choudhuryb. 1997GBEnglish-Bangladeshi association football player (born 1997)
- Hamza Mendylb. 1997MAMoroccan association football player
- Hamza Rafiab. 1999TNTunisian and French association football player
- Hamza BeyTR15th Century Ottoman admiral of Albanian descent
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 117 sources across 58 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12K | #492 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8.7K | #282 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2025 | 2.3K | #25 |
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
- What does the name Hamza mean, and where does it come from?
- 25 (hamzah): lion.'*’ Uncle (d.625) of Muhammad (s) who was known as ‘Lion of Allah and His Prophet’!** on account of his bravery in battles Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Hamza?
- A machine transcription gives /hamzˈa/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Hamza a male or female name?
- Hamza 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.
- What are other forms of the name Hamza?
- In the etymology graph, Həmzə is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Hamza?
- In Spain, the national register counted 11,740 people named Hamza, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Hamza compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Hamza is the 475th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Hamza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 670 thousand people named Hamza in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hamza.
What do you want to know about Hamza?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hamzaThe 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, “Hamza” — the 475th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.