Given name & surname

Hami

Hami is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish. It is used in Turkish.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Hami comes from Ottoman Turkish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Ottoman Turkish حامی.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2022. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Hami through the years

Babies since 1880
5
5 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2022
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
01232025Highest share 20220.0
Hami in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2022–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 135 as a first name in 2020; 303 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.

Hami’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Hami is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 羽美.

Walk Hami’s family in the name graph

Hami羽美Hammi

Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

People named Hami

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Hami, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Arabic · Modern

Halid

“immortal”

15Very rareRising fast

>99% boys

Turkish · Modern

Halil

“a beloved friend”

0Not recently recordedCooling

>99% boys

Arabic · Modern

Halit

“immortal”

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Arabic · Modern

Remzi

Remzi is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Persian · Modern

Azat

“free”

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Arabic · Modern

Wafi

“one who is trustworthy”

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Arabic · Modern

Mahmud

“one who is praiseworthy”

11Very rareSteady

>99% boys

Ancient Greek · Modern

Gediz

Gediz is a unisex given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Turkish.

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Hami’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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