# Hamid (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hamid/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | “praiseworthy” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 928 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 928 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 523, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمِيد (ḥamīd, “praiseworthy”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 4,722 |
| 2012 | 25 | 4,054 |
| 2013 | 16 | 5,481 |
| 2014 | 22 | 4,440 |
| 2015 | 12 | 6,816 |
| 2016 | 21 | 4,677 |
| 2017 | 24 | 4,263 |
| 2018 | 23 | 4,406 |
| 2019 | 22 | 4,531 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6,085 |
| 2021 | 28 | 3,849 |
| 2022 | 23 | 4,475 |
| 2023 | 23 | 4,512 |
| 2024 | 11 | 7,426 |
| 2025 | 17 | 5,467 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 1,209 |
| 2012 | 27 | 1,021 |
| 2013 | 30 | 954 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,630 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,511 |
| 2016 | 26 | 1,081 |
| 2017 | 13 | 1,812 |
| 2018 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2019 | 14 | 1,655 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,301 |
| 2022 | 18 | 1,420 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,007 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,613 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: حَمِيد, حَامِد
- Hindi: हमीद, हामिद
- Turkish: Hamit
- Russian: Хами́д

## People named Hamid

- Hamid Dabashi, American academic
- Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani, 11th century Persian Isma'ili scholar
- Hamid Arasly, Azerbaijani Soviet philologist, literary scholar, member of National Academy of Sciences (
- Hamid Tibouchi, Algerian painter and poet
- Hamid Algar, British-American Iranologist
- Hamid Sultanov, Azerbaijani statesman (1889-1938)
- Hamidullah Yousafzai, Afghan footballer
- Hamid Drake, American musician
- Hamid bey Shahtakhtinski, Azerbaijani educator (1880-1944)
- Idris Awate Hamid, Eritrean soldier (1910-1962)
- Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, First leader of the Islamic State of Iraq (1959–2010)
- Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian Quranic thinker, author, and academic (1943-2010)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.