Haitham
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Haitham is a given name, most frequently recorded in Egypt. In Oman it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script.
- OMOman1 in 649◐
- EGEgypt1 in 4K
- SYSyria1 in 4.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.1K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 205 ●
- 1 in 17K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
39K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Хайтем in RU Russia, UA Ukraine and Haïtham in MA Morocco.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #507 | 9,915 | 5.5K rec. | — | listed | Haitham | 131 |
| SY Syria | #564 | 6,843 | 7.2K rec. | — | — | Haitham | 34 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 3,153 | 3.1K rec. | — | — | Haitham | 43 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #485 | 2,455 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Haitham | 118 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 2,189 | 2.3K rec. | — | — | Haitham | 21 |
| OM Oman | #29 | 1,615 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Haitham | 63 |
| FR France | — | 1,507 | 991 rec. | — | — | Haitham | 124 |
| JO Jordan | #536 | 1,120 | 958 rec. | — | — | Haitham | 77 |
| US United States | — | 1,116 | 9.4K rec. | 1 in 298K | 1.1K | Haitham | 205 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,050 | 627 rec. | — | — | Haitham | 77 |
| DE Germany | — | 815 | 783 rec. | — | 1 | Haitham | 74 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #533 | 757 | 611 rec. | — | — | Haitham | 104 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic33K63%
- English5.9K11%
- French1.6K3%
- Spanish1.2K2%
- German1.1K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 32,553 | 63% |
| English | 5,858 | 11% |
| French | 1,622 | 3% |
| Spanish | 1,156 | 2% |
| German | 1,050 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 12 |
| 2012 | 15 |
| 2013 | 14 |
| 2014 | 9 |
| 2015 | 17 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2021 | 8 |
| 2022 | 16 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2024 | 15 |
| 2025 | 24 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1972–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Al-Haytham ibn 'Adib. 738IQnot in their usual nameAbbasid Kufan linguist and historian
- Haitham al-Malehb. 1931SYSyrian human rights activist
- Haitham bin Tarik Al Saidb. 1955OMSultan of Oman since 2020 (born 1955)
- Haytham Ali Tabatabaib. 1968LBnot in their usual nameHezbollah commander of Iranian descent (1968–2025)
- Haitham al-Ghaisb. 1969KWOPEC Secretary General
- Haytham Faroukb. 1971EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian association football player
- Haitham Mustafab. 1977SDSudanese footballer
- Haitham Mrabetb. 1980TNTunisian association football player
- Haytham Theebb. 1986PSnot in their usual namePalestinian footballer
- Haitam Aleesamib. 1991NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 44 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,465 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 598 | #2,447 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 333 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 326 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 322 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 307 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 283 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 229 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 205 | #8,855 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 198 | #4,831 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 196 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 172 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 114 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Haitham?
- We estimate roughly 2.1 thousand people bear Haitham (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Haitham have the most bearers?
- Haitham is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled haitham.
- How common is Haitham compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Haitham is the 507th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
- Is Haitham a male or female name?
- Haitham is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Haitham” — the 507th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.