Hamish

given name · English · Latin script

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

Hamish is a given name, most frequently recorded in Australia. In New Zealand it is the 93rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Scottish form of James, from Hebrew Ya‘aqov via Latin and Old French.

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 1.2K◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 2.6K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 17K

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

≈711 ●

across 6 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
231 ●

39K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 232K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

HamishLatin · English●67K records
แฮมิชThai · Thai●1 records

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●

Derivation of Hamish: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Hamish
  1. HebrewYa‘aqov●
  2. Latinand●

Scottish form of James, from Hebrew Ya‘aqov via Latin and Old French.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Hamish is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AU Australia#40744,33321K rec.—200Hamish202
GB United Kingdom—12,1445.7K rec.—73Hamish185
NZ New Zealand#937,3735.4K rec.—10Hamish130
CA Canada—745401 rec.—2Hamish83
US United States—5964.1K rec.1 in 558K596Hamish231
ZA South Africa—485453 rec.——Hamish44
FR France—376299 rec.—listedHamish85
IN India—258160 rec.—6Hamish32
DE Germany—199177 rec.——Hamish42
PK Pakistan—13710 rec.——Hamish11
SG Singapore—5659 rec.——Hamish32
RU Russia—5660 rec.——Hamish11

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Languages●

  • English67K91%
  • Hindi7571%
  • French5911%
  • German5641%
  • Spanish5401%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English67,42291%
Hindi7571%
French5911%
German5641%
Spanish5401%

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◐

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

  • Arabic given name592 records spelled Hamish5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand

    Also written Ḥamīsh, Ḥamish, Hãmîsh

  • Macedonian given name132 records spelled Hamish7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in New Zealand, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, United States

    Languages: Macedonian, Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Хамиш

  • Russian given name131 records spelled Hamish9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, New Zealand, United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Хамиш, Khamish, Хэмиш

46 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.

Other recorded senses●

Hamish is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Scottish: Anglicized spelling of the vocative case, Sheumais, of the Gaelic version of James. It is now sometimes chosen by families with no Scottish connections.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of mostly Scottish usage.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Variante écossaise de James (anglais de Jacques) ; origine hébraïque.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, From the enclosed land

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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0501001502001960198020002020194 · 1990

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Hamish in DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present), New Zealand, 1944–2024
Yearrecords
194410
194711
194815
194910
195011
195120
195220
195312
195414
195514
195624
195721
195829
195938
196054
196142
196241
196348
196461
196551
196676
196776
196886
196997
1970120
1971144
1972135
1973173
1974145
1975155
1976185
1977142
1978146
1979158
1980121
1981118
1982128
1983118
1984118
1985124
1986133
1987173
1988167
1989167
1990194
1991160
1992155
1993148
1994124
1995135
1996165
1997142
1998158
1999162
2000148
2001112
2002110
2003106
2004108
200590
200680
200777
200868
200971
201053
201133
201232
201336
201436
201531
201626
201720
201825
201920
202012
202212
202313
202410

NZ DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) — 78 years between 1944–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Hamish Stuart, b. 1949Hamish McColl, b. 1962Hamish Harding, b. 1964Hamish Hamilton, b. 1966Byron Black, b. 1969Hamish Carter, b. 1971Hamish Linklater, b. 1976Hamish Blake, b. 1981Hamish Bond, b. 1986Hamish Kerr, b. 1996

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 43 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Hamish
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020596#18,083
AU AustraliaAustralian national given names (aggregated state BDM)2023200—
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)2022104#83
AU AustraliaQLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present)202379—
GB United KingdomNRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present)202473#69
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—61#6,943
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—52#11,584
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—44#14,749
AU AustraliaAU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD)194437#58
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#13,190
AU AustraliaAustralian national given names (aggregated state BDM)201734—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—31#18,177

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 527 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hamish?
We estimate roughly 711 people bear Hamish (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Hamish have the most bearers?
Hamish is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled hamish.
How common is Hamish compared with other names?
In Australia, Hamish is the 407th most common given name of 197,734 given names recorded there.
Is Hamish a male or female name?
Hamish 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.
What does the name Hamish mean?
Recorded meaning: Scottish form of James, from Hebrew Ya‘aqov via Latin and Old French.
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About this data

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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, “Hamish” — the 407th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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