Hicham

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Hisham in MY Malaysia, LB Lebanon, IL Israel.

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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Hicham is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Arabic given name96K records spelled Hicham85 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, Israel, Algeria, United States

  Languages: Arabic, Hebrew

  Also written הישאם, השאם, Hichàm, Hisham, Hîchâm

• Spanish given name32K records spelled Hicham69 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Morocco, Brazil, United States

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Hichàm, Hîchâm, Hiçhàm, Hïchãm, Ĥîcĥam

• Indonesian given name4.2K records spelled Hicham17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, United States, Spain, Indonesia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Hîchäm, Hïchãm, Hichàm, Hîchâm, Hïçhäm

• a separate given name2.2K records spelled Hicham2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, United States, Algeria, United Kingdom

  Also written Hichâm

• Danish given name857 records spelled Hicham37 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Morocco, Spain

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

  Also written Hïçhãm, Hïčhâm, Hïchām, Hîchãm, Hįčhâm

• Japanese given name523 records spelled Hicham7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, Spain, Japan, United States

  Also written Hîchãm, Hįçhàm, Hichàm, Hîchäm, Hïčhàm

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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Moulay Hicham ben Abdellah el-Alaouib. 1964MAMoroccan royal
• Hicham Arazib. 1973MAMoroccan tennis player
• Hicham Bahloulb. 1973MAMoroccan actor
• Hicham El Guerroujb. 1974MAMoroccan middle and long distance runner
• Hicham Ayouchb. 1976FRFrench journalist
• Hicham Aboucherouaneb. 1981MAfootballer
• Hicham Faikb. 1992NLDutch footballer
• Hicham Boudaouib. 1999DZAlgerian footballer
• Hicham Malayoactor
• Hicham Belaoudiactor

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 134 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hicham?

We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Hicham (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Hicham have the most bearers?

Hicham is most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is most often spelled hicham.

How common is Hicham compared with other names?

In Morocco, Hicham is the 116th most common given name of 44,905 given names recorded there.

Is Hicham a male or female name?

Hicham 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.