Hesham

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/hɛʃəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hesham is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 83rd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 753(inferred from the name graph)
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 2.3K
  • YEYemen≈1 in 3.4K

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)

≈140,000 people, est.

Sources
247 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 753 (inferred from the name graph)

Egypt, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hesham 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.

Where Hesham is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#83≈140,000 est.≈1 in 753listedHesham187
SA Saudi Arabia#349≈15,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Hesham134
YE Yemen#285≈8,800 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Hesham53
LY Libya#73≈3,500 est.≈1 in 2K—Hesham37
SY Syria#821≈3,000 est.≈1 in 6.4K—Hesham26
US United States—1,1981 in 278K1.2KHesham247
KW Kuwait#378≈850 est.≈1 in 3.5K—Hesham60

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: the wgnd-eg-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hesham is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hëshâm, Hëshäm, Heşhâm, Hễshặm, Hêshäm

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Héšhám, Hésham, Hëşhäm, Hêśhäm

  • Turkish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Heşham, Heshām, Hêshãm, Hěṣhãm, Hęśhąm

  • Danish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Sweden, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Hèshåm, Hễshậm, Hêšhãm

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Héšhâm

  • Russian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Syria, Türkiye, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Хешам, Ĥĕśĥám

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19401960198020002020Hesham Seliem, b. 1958Hesham Maged, b. 1980Hesham Soliman, b. 1988Hesham Sallam, b. 2000Fares Hesham Fouad Eltohamy, b. 2003

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)

Informalمرحباً Hesham،Hi Hesham, (English)

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 38 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Hesham
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#10,917
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202410—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204#10,917
EG EgyptWGND 2.0 — Egypt given names———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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

How do you pronounce Hesham?
A machine transcription gives /hɛʃəm/ (IPA) for Arabic.
Is Hesham a male or female name?
Hesham 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 Hesham?
In the etymology graph, Hisham is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Hesham have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 138 thousand people named Hesham in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hesham.
How common is the name Hesham?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,198 people named Hesham in 2020, about 1 in 278 thousand residents.
How common is Hesham compared with other names?
In Egypt, Hesham is the 83rd most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.

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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, “Hesham” — the 83rd most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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