# Hamza (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hamza/  
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 | “lion” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Hamzah |
| US babies named this | 10,573 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,573 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8,949, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic حَمْزَة (ḥamza, literally “lion”), from the Arabic root ح م ز (ḥ m z).

## What it means

Hamza is grouped under lion.

## 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 | 293 | 765 |
| 2012 | 357 | 662 |
| 2013 | 369 | 657 |
| 2014 | 426 | 621 |
| 2015 | 435 | 616 |
| 2016 | 493 | 569 |
| 2017 | 409 | 635 |
| 2018 | 440 | 613 |
| 2019 | 409 | 652 |
| 2020 | 398 | 660 |
| 2021 | 426 | 648 |
| 2022 | 466 | 604 |
| 2023 | 524 | 557 |
| 2024 | 565 | 527 |
| 2025 | 556 | 541 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 295 | 188 |
| 2012 | 295 | 189 |
| 2013 | 280 | 201 |
| 2014 | 280 | 205 |
| 2015 | 305 | 188 |
| 2016 | 292 | 193 |
| 2017 | 264 | 202 |
| 2018 | 262 | 206 |
| 2019 | 259 | 198 |
| 2020 | 244 | 208 |
| 2021 | 275 | 198 |
| 2022 | 272 | 188 |
| 2023 | 300 | 171 |
| 2024 | 306 | 163 |
| 2025 | 385 | 129 |

## People named Hamza

- Hamza Choudhury, English-Bangladeshi association football player (born 1997)
- Hamza Abdelkarim, Egyptian footballer (born 2008)
- Hamza Yusuf, American Islamic scholar (born 1958)
- Hamza Namira, Egyptian singer, songwriter, and music producer
- Hamzah Haz, 9th Vice President of Indonesia
- Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad, Founding leader of the Druze
- Hamza al-Ghamdi, 9/11 hijacker (1980–2001)
- Hamza Alić, Athletics (sport) competitor
- Hamza Al-Dardour, footballer
- Hamza al-Isbahani, 10th-century Persian philologist and historian
- Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb, boy killed in 2011 while detained by the Syrian regime
- Hamza Bendelladj, Algerian hacker

## 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.