Hisham
About 926 American babies have been named Hisham since 1970, most of them around 2016. In 2025 it ranked 4,249th. About 900 Hishams are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hisham
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 926
- Estimated living today
- 900
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 2,993rd
- Rank in 2025
- 4,249th
- First recorded
- 1970
How old the living Hishams are
born that year still alive today
Of the 926 babies given the name since 1970, about 900 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Hishams
- Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (691–743)tenth Umayyad caliph
- Hisham I of Córdoba (757–796)Emir of Córdoba from 788 to 796
- Hisham II (965–1013)ruler of Córdoba (r. 976–1009)
- Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (737–819)Arab historian
- Hisham III of Córdoba (973–1036)last Umayyad ruler in the Al-Andalus
- Hisham Matar (born 1970)American writer
- Hisham ibn Urwah (680–763)Muslim scholar (c.680-763)
- Hisham al-Hashimi (1973–2020)Iraqi historian and researcher
People named Hisham with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hisham is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hisham is most concentrated in New York (4.7×), California (4.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular boys’ names the year Hisham peaked:
Hisham elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Hisham | 517 | 897th |
| France boys | Hisham | 215 | 2,264th |
| Belgium boys | Hisham | 5 | 1,385th |
| Scotland boys | Hisham | 3 | 429th |
| Poland boys | Hisham | 2 birth registrations | 736th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Hisham among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Hisham | 30 | 51 |
| Finland girls | Hisham | — | 10 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.