Given name & surname · also Arabic
Hamid
“a praiseworthy man”·“a beloved friend”
Hamid is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “a praiseworthy man” and “a beloved friend”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Original Arabicحَامِد
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “a praiseworthy man” and “a beloved friend”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
How it developed
From Arabic حَمِيد (“praiseworthy”); 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 1966. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hamid through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 928
- 928 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 28 babies
- 2025
- 17
- #5,467 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −2%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 17 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,467 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 1.9% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,602 as a first name in 2020; 4,459 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.
Hamid’s family of names
Hamid has a related form in Hameed. In English usage, Hamid has a conventional equivalent in the Turkish form HAMIT. In French usage, Hamid has a conventional equivalent in 7amid.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Hamid has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- حَامِدArabic
- حَمِيدArabic
- Hamiduequivalent
- حميدequivalent
- Хамитequivalent
- 7amidary
- ҲамидUzbek
- حامدUrdu, Persian
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See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Hamid
- Hamid KarzaiPresident of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014born 1957
- Abu Omar al-BaghdadiFirst leader of the Islamic State of Iraq (1959–2010)
- Hamid SourianIranian Greco-Roman wrestlerborn 1985
- Abdul HamidPakistani field hockey player (1927–2019)
- Hamid EstiliIranian footballerborn 1967
- Hamid Olimjonwriter, poet (1909–1944)
- Hamid MirPakistani journalist, columnist, and authorborn 1966
- Hamad bin SaidIman of Oman1800–1792
- Hamid IsmailQatari footballerborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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