Given name & surname
Hamza
“having great strength”
Hamza is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “having great strength.”
Original Arabicحمزة
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “having great strength.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
How it developed
In Romanian usage, Hamza as a surname developed from حمزة.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hamza through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10,573
- 10,573 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 565 babies
- 2025
- 556
- #541 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +18%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 556 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 541 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 18.1% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (67). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 9,536 as a first name in 2020; 1,795 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.
Hamza’s family of names
In Turkish usage, Hamza shares a linguistic root with the Bashkir form Хәмзә. Hamza has a related form in Hamzah. In English usage, Hamza has a related form in HUMZA.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Hamza has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
Arabicwhere Hamza comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 4
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 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hamza
- Hamza ibn Abd al-MuttalibMuhammad's companion and uncle (c. 568–625)
- Hamza Hakimzade NiyaziUzbek screenwriter and poet (1889-1929)
- Hamza ChoudhuryEnglish-Bangladeshi association football player (born 1997)
- Hamza AbdelkarimEgyptian footballer (born 2008)
- Hamza MendylMoroccan association football playerborn 1997
- Hamza bin Ladenkey member of al-Qaeda1989–2019
- Hamza YerlikayaTurkish wrestler and statesperson (born 1976)
- Hamza YusufAmerican Islamic scholar (born 1958)
- Ibn al-QalanisiArab historian (1073-1160)1071–1160
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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