Hamzah
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hamzah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Malaysia it is the 49th most common surname. Recorded meaning: The sound.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 923(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.7K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 8.3K
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 Hamzah 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 923 (inferred from the name graph)
≈71,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Хамза in KZ Kazakhstan and Гамза in UA Ukraine.
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)
The sound
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hamzah 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #214 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | listed | Hamzah | 166 |
| MY Malaysia | #49 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 923 | — | Hamzah | 94 |
| IQ Iraq | #371 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Hamzah | 26 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 1,325as Хамза | 1 in 14K | 13K | Хамза | 36 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Гамза | 31 |
| SG Singapore | #639 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Hamzah | 42 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; Bureau of National Statistics — names tool (monthly birth registrations 2010–2026). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amir Hamzahb. 1911IDIndonesian poet (1911-1946)
- Amir Hamzahbotanist
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 49 sources across 29 countries.
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 Hamzah mean, and where does it come from?
- The sound Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names.
- In which country does Hamzah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Hamzah in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hamzah.
- How common is the name Hamzah?
- In Kazakhstan, the national register counted 1,325 people named Хамза in 2021, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Hamzah compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Hamzah is the 214th most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hamzah?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hamzahThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hamzah” — the 214th most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.