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Hamad vs Hamza

American parents have registered 10,573 Hamzas since 1880, against 528 Hamads. Hamza is still ahead, with 556 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hamad against Hamza, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hamad Hamza

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Hamza has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Hamad had 11 and Hamza had 31.

Side by side

  Hamad Hamza
Total US births 52810,573
Most in one year 33565
Babies in 2025 24556
Estimated living today 52010,000
Median age today 1211
Peak year 20142024
Best rank 3,297th boys527th boys
Rank in 2025 4,249th541st
First recorded 19901977
Girls / boys 0 / 5280 / 10,573

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Hamad Hamza
France 7517,270
England and Wales 3218,949
Switzerland 8686

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hamad and Hamza.