Hamza
Hamza was given to 556 boys in 2025, #541 among boys’ names; 10,573 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,400 Americans named Hamza and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hamza by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hamza mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hamza is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “lion” (literally).
From Arabic حَمْزَة (ḥamza, literally “lion”), from the Arabic root ح م ز (ḥ m z).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hamza?
#541 among boys’ names, 2025
Hamza rose from #616 in 2015 to #541 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.23 to 0.33 per 1,000.
565 babies in 2024, the peak
Hamza peaked in 2024, when 565 boys were given it, #527 among boys’ names. The 556 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 556 | #541 | 0.33 |
| 2024 | 565 | #527 | 0.33 |
| 2023 | 524 | #557 | 0.31 |
| 2022 | 466 | #604 | 0.27 |
| 2021 | 426 | #648 | 0.24 |
| 2020 | 398 | #660 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 409 | #652 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 440 | #613 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 409 | #635 | 0.22 |
| 2016 | 493 | #569 | 0.26 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 435 | #616 | 0.23 |
| 2014 | 426 | #621 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 369 | #657 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 357 | #662 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 293 | #765 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 297 | #758 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 338 | #707 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 291 | #763 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 318 | #722 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 288 | #742 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 279 | #727 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 258 | #733 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 246 | #736 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 227 | #760 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 246 | #714 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 203 | #794 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 186 | #819 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 149 | #945 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 98 | #1,205 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,206 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 97 | #1,171 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,351 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 41 | #1,970 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 53 | #1,642 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 41 | #1,897 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,271 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 32 | #2,165 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,789 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,876 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,323 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,274 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,336 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,716 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,563 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,418 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,217 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hamza a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hamza has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hamza: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hamza, and how old are they?
10,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,573 Americans ever recorded as Hamza. The median Hamza alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 9,536 people named Hamza (46 women and girls, 9,490 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,656 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 543 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,870 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Hamza born?
The states with the most babies named Hamza are California, Texas and New York, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 67 | #476 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 64 | #522 | 0.8× |
| New York | 58 | #315 | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 42 | #266 | 1.6× |
| Minnesota | 39 | #170 | 3.7× |
| Virginia | 36 | #240 | 1.9× |
| New Jersey | 27 | #317 | 1.9× |
| Michigan | 27 | #331 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 26 | #414 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #481 | 0.8× |
Where Hamza is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hamza is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1977 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hamza with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 12,336 babies since 1880, Hamza is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 556 of their 601 babies (93%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hamza
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hamza and names like it
- Compare Hamza and HamzahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHamza peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hamza since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Hamza: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Hamza.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hamza alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.