Hameed

surname · Urdu · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hameed is a surname, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. In Morocco it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: praiseworthy.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 345◐
  • MAMorocco1 in 555
  • TRTürkiye1 in 1.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈19K ●

across 8 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
282 ●

1.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.7K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

HamitLatin · Turkish●457K records
ХамидCyrillic · Uzbek●19K records
হামিদBengali · Bangla●1K records
ᲒამიდGeorgian · Georgian●319 records
ฮามิตThai · Thai●41 records
하미드Hangul · Korean●1 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hamid in IN India, US United States, FR France and 19 more, Хамид in RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more and Hamit in TR Türkiye.

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●

praiseworthy

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hameed is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#194479,868490K rec.—#100Hamit71
IN India—316,576269K rec.—1.7KHamid136
PK Pakistan#225164,4238.2K rec.—9Hameed113
RU Russia#69930,47524K rec.—#474Хамид116
MA Morocco#3527,65929K rec.——Hamid104
SY Syria#12027,32540K rec.——Hamid31
MY Malaysia#30718,34966K rec.——Hamid92
GB United Kingdom—11,45112K rec.—listedHamid122
IR Iran—10,7736.2K rec.——Hamid71
NG Nigeria—8,79714K rec.——Hameed53
IQ Iraq—8,78410K rec.——Hamid45
UZ Uzbekistan#2968,143834 rec.—listedХамид17

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Languages●

  • Urdu169K34%
  • 108K22%
  • Hindi93K19%
  • Marathi35K7%
  • English29K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu168,74234%
107,51222%
Hindi92,98619%
Marathi35,3067%
English28,9816%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hameed is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname6.6K records spelled Hameed3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Hámêêď

  • Turkish surname6.0K records spelled Hameed4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Iraq, Pakistan, India

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Hämëëd

  • French surname2.2K records spelled Hameed6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, India

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Hàmééd, Hãmęêd, Hãmeed, Hàmèèd

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0510151980199020002010202011 · 2005

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Hameed in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1976–2025
Yearrecords
19769
19779
19788
19817
19846
19898
19925
19935
19948
19955
19976
20008
20015
20045
200511
20068
20075
20086
20107
20127
20146
20165
20179
20188
20195
20236
20257

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1976–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Abdulla Hameed, b. 1939Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed, b. 1941Abdullah Hameed, b. 1952Ahmed Talib Hameed, b. 1981Sadia Hameed, b. 1986Nargis Hameed, b. 1998

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 47 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Hameed
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—35K#388
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—9.8K#567
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.6K#11,585
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.8K#15,879
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.7K#3,641
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001K#23,568
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—704#2,168
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020618#17,498
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—453#2,027
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—238#6,605
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—193#3,536
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—183#17,719

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 125 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hameed?
We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Hameed (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Hameed have the most bearers?
Hameed is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled hamit.
How common is Hameed compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Hameed is the 194th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
What does the name Hameed mean?
Recorded meaning: praiseworthy
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Hameed” — the 194th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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