Fun Facts About the Name Hamze
- 80 babies named Hamze: U.S. records list 80 babies given the name Hamze from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Hamze Mean?
Hamze is a form of the Arabic name Hamza (حمزة), whose established meaning is "lion." The Arabic noun ḥamza was applied to the lion, and from that it also came to describe a strong, bold man. The word belongs to the root ḥ-m-z, which has senses of pinching, pressing, and sharp or pungent taste; a related noun names a sharp-tasting plant. The literal sense of the root is therefore something like "pungent, sharp," while "lion" is the customary meaning attached to the name itself.
The same Arabic word is also the name of the glottal-stop sign (ء) in the Arabic script, but that is a separate technical use of the word and does not supply the meaning of the personal name.
Hamze Name History & Origins
Hamza was used as a personal name in Arabia before Islam. Its best-known early bearer is Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib, a paternal uncle of the prophet Muhammad and in some accounts his foster brother. He became a Muslim, fought at the Battle of Badr, and was killed at the Battle of Uhud near Medina around 625 CE. Islamic tradition honors him as Sayyid al-Shuhada, "chief of the martyrs," and traditional accounts also record the title Asad Allah, "lion of God." His standing helped make Hamza a familiar given name in Muslim communities from the early Islamic period onward.
The spelling Hamze reflects forms of the name used in Persian and in Bosnian and Albanian, where the final hamza is rendered as a vowel rather than as the glottal stop heard in Arabic. Persian writes the name حمزه and pronounces it with a final -e; Ottoman Turkish and modern Turkish use Hamza; Bosnian and Albanian use both Hamza and Hamze. Because Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Balkan transliterations overlap, Hamza, Hamzah, Hamzeh, and Hamze all appear in English for the same name.
How Popular is the Name Hamze?
Hamze has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2016. Its best rank was #6,867 in 2016.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | #10,226 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2021 | #12,794 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #8,433 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2018 | #8,394 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2017 | #12,951 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2016 | #6,867 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2015 | #9,921 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #12,735 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #9,167 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2003 | #11,512 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2002 | #7,909 | 8 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Hamze Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You attract success and money. You are a lover of nature and do not need others for your happiness. You are self sufficient. You strive for material success and power and have business sense. You possess strong organizational abilities, can be a good manager, and executive by nature. You are capable of great achievement in business and finance. You are bold, independent, inquisitive and interested in research. You know what you want and why you want it.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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