Hishaam
given name · Latin script
Meaning: generosity
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɪʃəəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hishaam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 209K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 560K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 591K
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)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 209K (inferred from the name graph)
≈330 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
generosity
Sources 1
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hishaam 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 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 703K | listed | — | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 209K | — | Hishaam | 21 |
| EG Egypt | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Hishaam | 11 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 560K | — | Hishaam | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Hishaam | 30 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 591K | — | Hishaam | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | — | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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).
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 7 | #35,090 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 7 | #22,158 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Hishaam mean, and where does it come from?
- generosity Recorded by Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names.
- How do you pronounce Hishaam?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɪʃəəm/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Hishaam a male or female name?
- Hishaam 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.
- In which country does Hishaam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 332 people named Hishaam in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hishaam?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 7 people named Hishaam, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hishaam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hishaamThe 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, “Hishaam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.