Hamsa — boys' name

What the Data Says About Hamsa

The Social Security Administration has registered 169 babies named Hamsa between 2000 and 2018, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hamsa currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 16 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hamsa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Hamsa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Hamsa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hamsa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 169 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.