Hamzah

surname · Indonesian · Latin script

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

Hamzah is a surname, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Malay, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The sound.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia1 in 846◐
  • MKNorth Macedonia1 in 1.5K
  • UZUzbekistan1 in 1.5K

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

≈57K ●

across 12 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
148 ●

113K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.5K ◐

North Macedonia

Spellings & scripts●

HamzahLatin · Indonesian●50K records
ХамзаCyrillic · Kazakh●42K records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hamza in ES Spain, TR Türkiye, SE Sweden and 7 more, Хамза in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan and 3 more and Гамза in UA Ukraine.

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●

The sound

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of Islamic Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Hamzah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia—64,98132K rec.——Hamzah81
ID Indonesia—27,9594.8K rec.—listedHamzah148
RU Russia#91026,17212K rec.—#295Хамза104
FR France—16,745△4 rec.1 in 4.1K17K—2
ES Spain—11,740△105 rec.1 in 4.3K12KHamza8
KZ Kazakhstan#35010,84226K rec.1 in 1.8K13KХамза34
US United States—9,490△3.3K rec.1 in 35K9.5KHamzah117
UZ Uzbekistan#2699,034178 rec.—listedХамза13
UA Ukraine—6,9409.2K rec.——Гамза30
KG Kyrgyzstan#7614,393416 rec.——Хамза14
TR Türkiye—3,5985.5K rec.—2.3KHamza20
SE Sweden—3,067△102 rec.1 in 3.3K3.1KHamza8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Indonesian50K44%
  • Malay38K33%
  • English11K9%
  • Arabic5.4K5%
  • Chinese1.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Indonesian50,31544%
Malay37,81833%
English10,7469%
Arabic5,3795%
Chinese1,1541%

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◐

Hamzah is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname20K records spelled Hamzah12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Australia, Singapore

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hämžãh, Hämzäh, Hämžäh, Hǻmzǻh, Ḥamzah

  • Urdu given name1.1K records spelled Hamzah86 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, Türkiye, Nigeria

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi, Bangla

    Also written Hamza, Hamja, হামজা, Humza, Hàmzà

  • a separate surname757 records spelled Hamzah2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, India, United States, Iraq

    Also written Ḥamzah

  • Thai surname668 records spelled Hamzah4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Thailand

    Also written ฮัมซะห์, ฮมซะห

  • Danish surname511 records spelled Hamzah6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Malaysia, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Håmzåh

37 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●

0204060801980199020002010202067 · 2008

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Hamzah in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1979–2025
Yearrecords
19797
19846
19856
19879
198918
199011
199111
199212
199314
199422
199528
199626
199729
199842
199962
200045
200147
200249
200345
200450
200549
200654
200752
200867
200954
201050
201147
201242
201345
201443
201542
201647
201746
201848
201947
202053
202152
202235
202344
202443
202545

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 41 years between 1979–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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 49 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Hamzah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.5K#9,463
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020280#74,428
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—263#4,299
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020137—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010136#126,018
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—132#6,391
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—84#5,708
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—60#2,048
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—51#6,628
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202545—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—45#9,684
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—40#13,414

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 185 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hamzah?
We estimate roughly 57 thousand people bear Hamzah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Hamzah have the most bearers?
Hamzah is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled hamzah.
How common is Hamzah compared with other names?
In North Macedonia, Hamzah is the 254th most common given name of 4,548 given names recorded there.
What does the name Hamzah mean?
Recorded meaning: The sound
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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, “Hamzah” — the 254th most common given name in North Macedonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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