Humza
Humza was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,690 among boys’ names; 1,328 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Humza and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Humza by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Humza mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Humza is “a male given name from Arabic.”
From Urdu حمزہ (hamza), from Arabic حمزة (hamza).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Humza?
#3,690 among boys’ names, 2025
Humza rose from #3,728 in 2015 to #3,690 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.1 to 17.6 per million.
69 babies in 2001, the peak
Humza peaked in 2001, when 69 boys were given it, #1,682 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,690 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,117 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,929 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,238 | 21.2 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,208 | 21.1 |
| 2020 | 44 | #2,774 | 25.5 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,068 | 21.7 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,737 | 16.0 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,026 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 35 | #3,251 | 18.4 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,728 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,003 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,081 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 40 | #2,919 | 21.1 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,680 | 23.7 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,568 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,672 | 23.2 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,246 | 17.2 |
| 2007 | 47 | #2,619 | 22.6 |
| 2006 | 49 | #2,487 | 23.8 |
| 2005 | 51 | #2,306 | 25.5 |
| 2004 | 44 | #2,505 | 22.2 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,061 | 27.8 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,071 | 26.8 |
| 2001 | 69 | #1,682 | 35.5 |
| 2000 | 57 | #1,857 | 29.0 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,001 | 25.0 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,046 | 24.1 |
| 1997 | 37 | #2,279 | 19.6 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,080 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,572 | 15.2 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,798 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,095 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,410 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,711 | 7.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,238 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,071 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Humza a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Humza has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Humza: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Humza, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,328 Americans ever recorded as Humza. The median Humza alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,137 people named Humza (0 women and girls, 1,137 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,123 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 138 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 738 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 431 |
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 Humza born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,313 | 0.2× |
Where Humza is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Humza is most over-represented in New York: since 1985 it was given 1.5 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 Humza 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 13,750 babies since 1880, Humza is the third most given (9.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 631 babies (4.8%), again the third 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 Humza
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 Humza and names like it
- Compare Humza and HamzaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHumza peaked in 2001.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Humza since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Humza: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Humza.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Humza alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.