Hamza

Where Hamza comes from

From Arabic حَمْزَة (ḥamza, literally “lion”), from the Arabic root ح م ز (ḥ m z).
— Wiktionary's entry for Hamza
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 568
    Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib born
    Muhammad's companion and uncle
  2. 1889
    Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi born
    Uzbek screenwriter and poet
  3. 1977
    First appearance
    #5,845 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2024
    Peak, #527
    565 babies named Hamza — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
  • The Muslim Sahabi Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib.
Namesakes
  • Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib · Muhammad's companion and uncle, 568–625
  • Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi · Uzbek screenwriter and poet, 1889–1929
  • Hamza Choudhury · English-Bangladeshi association football player, born 1997
  • Hamza Mendyl · Moroccan association football player, born 1997
  • Hamza Abdelkarim · Egyptian footballer, born 2008

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.