Given name & surname
Hamida
“one who gives thanks”
Hamida is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “one who gives thanks.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who gives thanks.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hamida through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 90
- 0 boys · 90 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,368 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hamida’s family of names
Hamida has a related form in Hameeda. Hamida has a related form in Hamidah. Hamida has a related form in Hameada.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Hameedahvariant
- Hamidahvariant
- Hameadahvariant
- Hamiedahvariant
- Hameidahvariant
- Hamydahvariant
- Hameadavariant
- Hamiedavariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hamida
- Hamida JavanshirAzerbaijani philanthropist and women's rights activist (1873-1955)
- Hamida OmarovaAzerbaijani actressborn 1957
- Hamida al-AttasMother of Osama bin Ladenborn 1943
- Hamida BarmakiAfghan activist (1970-2011)
- Hamida AmanAfghan journalistborn 1973
- Hamida KhuhroPakistani politician and historian1936–2017
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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