Given name & surname
Hammad
“one who is commendable”
Hammad is a variant of Hamidi. One interpretation is “one who is commendable.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hammad is a variant of Hamidi. One interpretation is “one who is commendable.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Hammad is a form of Hamad. Hamad comes from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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
Hammad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 527
- 527 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 17
- #5,468 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. 5,468 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 2.2% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 25 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 896 as a first name in 2020; 2,353 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.
Hammad’s family of names
In English usage, Hammad has a related form in HAMAD. Hammad has a related form in Hamidi.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Hammad
- Hammad Ar-RawiyaIraqi poet694–701
- Hammad MiahEnglish snooker playerborn 1993
- Hammad ibn SalamahArab grammarian
- Hammad ibn Abi SulaymanMuslim jurist and scholar700–737
- Hammad bin ZaydIslamic scholar and hadith narrator (716–795)
- Hammad al-HarraniIslamic scholar1117–1202
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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