Hamzah
Hamzah was given to 45 boys in 2025, #2,811 among boys’ names; 1,544 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Hamzah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hamzah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hamzah?
#2,811 among boys’ names, 2025
Hamzah rose from #2,823 in 2015 to #2,811 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.9 to 26.3 per million.
67 babies in 2008, the peak
Hamzah peaked in 2008, when 67 boys were given it, #2,073 among boys’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #2,811 | 26.3 |
| 2024 | 43 | #2,927 | 25.0 |
| 2023 | 44 | #2,858 | 25.7 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,365 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 52 | #2,532 | 29.7 |
| 2020 | 53 | #2,446 | 30.7 |
| 2019 | 47 | #2,706 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 48 | #2,620 | 26.4 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,691 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 47 | #2,638 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,823 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 43 | #2,769 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,634 | 23.8 |
| 2012 | 42 | #2,838 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 47 | #2,599 | 24.7 |
| 2010 | 50 | #2,481 | 26.1 |
| 2009 | 54 | #2,387 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,073 | 32.8 |
| 2007 | 52 | #2,456 | 25.1 |
| 2006 | 54 | #2,328 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 49 | #2,382 | 24.5 |
| 2004 | 50 | #2,288 | 25.2 |
| 2003 | 45 | #2,366 | 22.8 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,164 | 25.2 |
| 2001 | 47 | #2,189 | 24.2 |
| 2000 | 45 | #2,202 | 22.9 |
| 1999 | 62 | #1,700 | 32.3 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,170 | 22.0 |
| 1997 | 29 | #2,692 | 15.4 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,857 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 28 | #2,638 | 14.7 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,152 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,316 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,660 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,882 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,790 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,247 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,699 | 4.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,051 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,850 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,030 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hamzah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hamzah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hamzah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hamzah, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,544 Americans ever recorded as Hamzah. The median Hamzah alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,466 people named Hamzah (8 women and girls, 1,458 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,269 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 156 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 771 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 586 |
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 Hamzah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | #1,476 | 1.6× |
| California | 5 | #2,595 | 0.7× |
Where Hamzah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hamzah is most over-represented in New York: since 1979 it was given 1.6 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 Hamzah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Hamzah?
Hamzah is a less common spelling of Hamza: SSA has recorded 1,544 Hamzah and 10,573 Hamza since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 12,336 babies since 1880, Hamzah is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 601 babies (7.5%), again the second 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 Hamzah
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 Hamzah and names like it
- Compare Hamzah and HamzaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHamzah peaked in 2008.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hamzah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Hamzah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hamzah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.