Hisham
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hisham is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: beneficence, liberality.
- JOJordan≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.8K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 1.9K
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)
- Sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈57,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
beneficence, liberality. Umayyad Khalifa (724-43)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hisham 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 | #276 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Hisham | 167 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #297 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Hisham | 147 |
| JO Jordan | #364 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Hisham | 78 |
| YE Yemen | #293 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Hisham | 38 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Hisham | 46 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #290 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Hisham | 118 |
| US United States | — | 1,769 | 1 in 188K | 1.8K | Hisham | 263 |
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; the islamic-names-dictionary-2005 register; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 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)
Hisham is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, beneficence, generosity. Name of a sahabi
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Literally ‘crushing’ but with the transferred meaning ‘having a generous nature’, by association with the crushing and distribution of bread. See HASHIM. Huda ° ‘Right guidance’. _ J
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Generosity,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
generous
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
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)
- Hisham ibn Abd al-Malikb. 691SYtenth Umayyad caliph
- Hisham I of Córdobab. 757ESEmir of Córdoba from 788 to 796
- Hisham IIb. 965ESruler of Córdoba (r. 976–1009) (1010–1013)
- Hisham III of Córdobab. 975ESlast Umayyad ruler in the Al-Andalus (1026-1031)
- Hisham Kafarnehb. 1959SYSyrian actor
- Hesham Qandilb. 1962EGnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Egypt from 2012 to 2013
- هشام عباسb. 1963EGnot in their usual nameSaudi Singer
- Noor Hisham Abdullahb. 1963MYMalaysian civil servant and endocrine surgeon
- Hisham Tawfiqb. 1976USAmerican actor
- Hesham Mesbahb. 1982EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian judoka
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #8,234 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 24 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #8,234 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Dictionary of Islamic Names (2005) | — | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Where does the name Hisham come from?
- beneficence, liberality. Umayyad Khalifa (724-43) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What does the name Hisham mean?
- Recorded meaning: beneficence, liberality.
- Is Hisham a male or female name?
- Hisham 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 Hisham?
- In the etymology graph, Hesham is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hisham have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 57 thousand people named Hisham in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hisham.
- How common is the name Hisham?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,769 people named Hisham in 2020, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
- How common is Hisham compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Hisham is the 276th 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, “Hisham” — the 276th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.