Given name & surname
Hameed
“a praiseworthy man”·“a beloved friend”
Hameed is a variant of Hamid. Interpretations include “a praiseworthy man” and “a beloved friend”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hameed is a variant of Hamid. Interpretations include “a praiseworthy man” and “a beloved friend”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hameed through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 184
- 184 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,047 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −52%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,047 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 629 as a first name in 2020; 2,596 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.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hameed
- IdirAlgerian Kabyle singer-songwriter and musician (1945-2020)
- Hamid HassanAfghanistan cricketerborn 1987
- Hameed Al-QallafKuwaiti footballerborn 1987
- Hamid NizamiPakistani journalist and activist (1915–1962)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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