Given name & surname
Hicham
Hicham is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in French.
Original Arabicهشام
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hicham through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 14
- 14 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 9 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 boys is 5 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,215 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.
Hicham’s family of names
In French usage, Hicham has a related form in HICHEM. In French usage, Hicham has a conventional equivalent in the Arabic form هشام.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hicham
- Hicham El GuerroujMoroccan middle and long distance runnerborn 1974
- Hicham BoudaouiAlgerian footballerborn 1999
- Hicham AraziMoroccan tennis playerborn 1973
- Hicham AboucherouaneMoroccan association footballer and managerborn 1981
- Hicham ZeroualiMoroccan footballer (1977-2004)
- Hicham MahdoufiMoroccan footballerborn 1983
- Hichem HamdouchiMoroccan and French chess playerborn 1972
- Hicham BelkarouiAlgerian footballerborn 1990
- Hicham BouchichaAlgerian athleteborn 1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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