Given name
Hooman
“good-natured”
Hooman is a masculine given name from Persian (ultimately Middle Persian), meaning “good-natured.”
Original Persianهومن
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Hooman comes from Persian, and ultimately from Middle Persian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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
Hooman through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 29
- 29 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 7 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 6 in 1993. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1977.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hooman’s family of names
In English usage, Hooman was borrowed from the Persian form هومن.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hooman
- Houman SeyyediIranian director and actorborn 1980
- Hooman MajdAmerican-Iranian writerborn 1957
- Hooman Haji AbdollahiIranian actor, voice actor, and TV presenterborn 1975
- Hooman BarghnavardIranian television and cinema actorborn 1969
- Hooman KhalatbariIranian-Austrian pianist and music conductorborn 1969
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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