Hameed

surname · Latin script

Meaning: praiseworthy

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

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

Hameed is a surname 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.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 7.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 373as Hamid
  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 441as Hamid

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 Hameed 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)

≈140,000 named Hamid, est.

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
340 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Nigeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HamitLatin(measured from records)
ХамидCyrillic(measured from records)
হামিদBengali(measured from records)
ฮามิตThai(measured from records)
გამიდGeorgian(measured from records)
하미드Hangul(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hamid in MA Morocco, ES Spain, DZ Algeria and 1 more and Hamit in TR Türkiye.

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)

praiseworthy

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hameed 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 Hameed is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#222≈140,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K9Hameed137
MA Morocco#37≈95,000 est.≈1 in 373—Hamid120
AF Afghanistan#62≈83,000 est.≈1 in 441—Hamid23
DZ Algeria#40≈58,000 est.≈1 in 737—Hamid71
TR Türkiye#191≈45,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K#100Hamit91
NG Nigeria—≈29,000 est.≈1 in 7.5K—Hameed58
ES Spain#6466,063as Hamid1 in 8.2K6.1KHamid61
XK Kosovo—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 1.8K1.8K—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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hameed is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Malay surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Indonesia

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Hámêêď

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Iraq, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Hämëëd

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, India

    Also written Hàmééd, Hàmèèd, Hãmęêd, Hãmeed

54 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)

19201940196019802000Abdulla Hameed, b. 1939Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed, b. 1941Abdullah Hameed, b. 1952Ahmed Talib Hameed, b. 1981Sadia Hameed, b. 1986Nargis Hameed, b. 1998

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)

Formalمحترم Hameed صاحب،Dear Mr Hameed, (English)
Informalہیلو Hameed،Hi Hameed, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 47 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Hameed
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—183#17,719
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—183#17,656
PK PakistanElection Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election20189#85

Reference works 5

  • 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
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Hameed mean, and where does it come from?
praiseworthy Recorded by African Muslim Names.
How do you pronounce Hameed?
A machine transcription gives /hamʲiːd/ (IPA) for Urdu.
What are other forms of the name Hameed?
In the etymology graph, Ahmad and Ehmed are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Hameed have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 140 thousand people named Hamid in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Hameed?
In Spain, the national register counted 6,063 people named Hamid, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
How common is Hameed compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Hameed is the 222nd most common given name of 77,659 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, “Hameed” — the 222nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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