Given name & surname · also Turkish
Hamdi
Hamdi is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish and Albanian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Hamdi comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish حمدی (Hamdi), from Arabic حَمْدِي.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hamdi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 530
- 134 boys · 396 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 31 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −30%
- Easing
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 11 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 25 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,540 as a first name in 2020; 549 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.
Hamdi’s family of names
Hamdi may belong to the same name family as HAMMDI. This is a tentative spelling connection.
See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Hamdi
- Hamdi SalihiAlbanian association football playerborn 1984
- Hamdi NagguezTunisian association football playerborn 1992
- Hamdi HarbaouiTunisian association football playerborn 1985
- Hamdi KasraouiTunisian association football playerborn 1983
- Hamdi UlukayaTurkish businessperson of Kurdish ancestry (born 1972)
- Hamdi MarzoukiTunisian association football playerborn 1977
- Hamdi al-PachachiIraqi politician1886–1948
- Hamdi BenaniAlgerian musician and singer (1943–2020)
- Hamdi AkujobiDutch/Nigerian association football playerborn 2000
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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