Given name & surname
Hamad
“praise”
Hamad is a masculine given name from Arabic, meaning “praise.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Arabic حَمَد (ḥamad); its root is Arabic ح م د.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hamad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 528
- 528 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 33 babies
- 2025
- 24
- #4,301 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −7%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 24 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,301 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 7.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 33 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 761 as a first name in 2020; 2,794 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hamad’s family of names
In English usage, Hamad has a related form in Hammad. In English usage, Hamad as a surname has a related form in Hammad.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Hamad
- Hamad bin Isa Al KhalifaKing of Bahrainborn 1950
- Hamad bin Khalifa Al ThaniEmir of Qatar from 1995 to 20131952–2026
- Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al ThaniQatari politician; prime minister and foreign ministerborn 1959
- Hamad AmarIsraeli Druze politicianborn 1964
- Hamad bin Isa Al KhalifaHakim of Bahrain (1872–1942)
- Hamad Abu RabiaIsraeli politician (1929-1981)
- Hamad KhalailyIsraeli politician1928–2014
- Hamad MasauniTanzanian politicianborn 1973
- Hamad bin Abdullah Al ThaniEmir of Qatar1896–1948
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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