# Hisham (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hisham/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 926 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 926 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 517, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 28 | 3,723 |
| 2012 | 25 | 4,056 |
| 2013 | 23 | 4,230 |
| 2014 | 29 | 3,647 |
| 2015 | 26 | 4,019 |
| 2016 | 39 | 3,024 |
| 2017 | 20 | 4,814 |
| 2018 | 26 | 4,035 |
| 2019 | 20 | 4,864 |
| 2020 | 31 | 3,522 |
| 2021 | 17 | 5,418 |
| 2022 | 21 | 4,768 |
| 2023 | 25 | 4,259 |
| 2024 | 28 | 3,922 |
| 2025 | 24 | 4,308 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 1,209 |
| 2012 | 18 | 1,367 |
| 2013 | 24 | 1,086 |
| 2014 | 15 | 1,560 |
| 2015 | 18 | 1,380 |
| 2016 | 14 | 1,704 |
| 2017 | 23 | 1,178 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,683 |
| 2019 | 20 | 1,253 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 12 | 1,860 |
| 2022 | 12 | 1,879 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1,799 |
| 2024 | 22 | 1,235 |
| 2025 | 19 | 1,406 |

## People named Hisham

- Hisham I of Córdoba, Emir of Córdoba from 788 to 796
- Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, Arab historian (737–819)
- Hisham Matar, American writer
- Hisham Tawfiq, American actor
- Hisham Kabbani, American Sufi leader
- Hisham Bastawisy, Egyptian judge and the vice president of the Egyptian Court of Cassation (1951–2021)
- Hisham Barakat, Egyptian prosecutor general (1950–2015)
- Hesham Mesbah, Egyptian judoka

## 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.