Hamzah
Masculine · “lion”
Hamzah is a lion, and it is also a mark of punctuation — the Arabic hamza, the small sign that marks a catch in the throat. The name belongs to the first sense, and it belonged to a man remembered as the Lion of God.
How old is the name Hamzah?
Hamzah first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Hamzah alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,500 people named Hamzah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Hamzah most popular?
Hamzah peaked in 1999, reaching #1692 nationally. Today it ranks #2798, 1,106 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
From hamza to Hamzah
The story of Hamzah
Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib was an uncle of Muhammad, close to him in age, and one of the most formidable of the early Muslims; he was killed at the battle of Uhud and is remembered as Asad Allah, the Lion of God. That gave the name its standing across the Muslim world, from Morocco to Indonesia. Hamza and Hamzah are the two common transliterations, and the final h in this spelling represents the Arabic letter ta marbuta rather than a sound English can hear.
Meaning
lion; strong, steadfast
Arabic hamza comes from a root carrying strength and sharpness, and the name is generally read as 'lion' and as 'strong, steadfast'. The same word names the orthographic sign that marks a glottal stop in Arabic writing, which is a separate use of the root rather than the source of the name. The reading is documented and not in dispute.
How the name formed
- hamza
- Hamzah
Related forms: Hamza · Hamza · Hamza · Hamza
Pronouncing Hamzah
HAM-zah
Two syllables, stress on the first. The h is a light throat sound in Arabic, deeper than the English h; the final vowel is open. The h at the end of this spelling is silent and marks an Arabic letter rather than a sound.
Nicknames for Hamzah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1979
- Most boys named
- 200867 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1692reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- +4.7%45 in 2025, from 43
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Hamzah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Hamza in Arabic — transliteration
- Hamza in Turkish — same name
- Hamza in Urdu — same name
- Hamza in Bosnian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Michigan, California.
Hamzahs among us
people named Hamzah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 37,957 born in 2025 was named Hamzah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Hamzah
- #2798
- Hamzah on the 2025 chart
- #459
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Hamzah went to 45 boys in 2025, but Hamza is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 601, which makes it the 459th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,339 places above the chart.
- Hamza556
- Hamzah45
About 1 boy in 2,842 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 37,957 for Hamzah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shaw test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Hamzah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shaw climbed just as high around 1974, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shaw's path sketches the road Hamzah is walking now.
Hamzah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Hamzah is headed
Hamzah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Hamzah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Hamzah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Recognized instantly across the whole Muslim world, with a clear meaning behind it.
- Six letters, no difficult consonant clusters, and readable at sight in English.
- The meaning is concrete — a lion — rather than an abstract quality.
- Hamza and Hamzah are both standard, and the final h will be added or dropped by whoever is writing.
- The English short form Hammy is common in schools and unwelcome in some families.
- The Arabic h is deeper than the English one, so the name will not sound quite as it does at home.
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Frequently asked
- How many Hamzahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Hamzah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Hamzah?
- Hamzah is one of 2 recorded spellings. Hamza is the more common one — 556 births in 2025 against 45 for Hamzah.
- How popular is the name Hamzah in 2025?
- Hamzah ranks #2798 among US boy names in 2025, with 45 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Hamzah?
- About 1 in every 37,957 US boys born in 2025 was named Hamzah — 45 in all.
- Will my child share the name Hamzah with classmates?
- Hamzah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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