Hamzah

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Hamzah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Hamzah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #202 in 2001, and it stood at #711 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#202highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Boys

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#269
1997	#278
1998	#220
1999	#218
2000	#204
2001	#202
2002	#202
2003	#243
2004	#334
2005	#316
2006	#443
2007	#392
2008	#418
2009	#468
2010	#444
2011	#565
2012	#588
2013	#544
2014	#684
2015	#671
2016	#647
2017	#701
2018	#897
2019	#642
2020	#962
2021	#641
2022	#714
2023	#965
2024	#711

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #269 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #202 among boys in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #711 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Hamzah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Hamzah in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	483	4 of 10	121
2000sbusiest	1,134	10 of 10	113
2010s	565	10 of 10	57
2020s	214	5 of 10	43

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 113 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2003 and 2004, when recorded births fell by 41, from 131 to 90.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Hamzah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #202 in England and Wales in 2002.

Hamzah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#711	50	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#965	31	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#714	47	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#641	57	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#962	29	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#642	55	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#897	33	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#701	50	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#647	54	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#671	51	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#684	48	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#544	67	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#588	60	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#565	62	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#444	85	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#468	77	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#418	89	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#392	92	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#443	73	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#316	101	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#334	90	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#243	131	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#202	167	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#202	156	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#204	158	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#218	140	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#220	139	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#278	99	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#269	105	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #202, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 167 births, registered in England and Wales in 2002.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#711position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
167births registered in its largest year, 2002100 to 199 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Padraigh · #202, 30y
Dagmar · #203, 26y
Kornelius · #201, 30y
Baard · #204, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Meadbh · #202, 20y
Bill · #203, 35y
Effie · #201, 30y
Kaden · #203, 29y

Hamzah was ranked #202 in England and Wales · Boys in 2001. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Hamzah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Hamzah without appearing here.

Hamzah moved ahead of

Phillip Compare
In 2018 they stood at #897 and #835 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #642 and #1253.
Mitchell Compare
In 2018 they stood at #897 and #763 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #642 and #1217.
Gregory Compare
In 2020 they stood at #962 and #921 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #641 and #1078.
Scott Compare
In 2023 they stood at #965 and #691 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #711 and #1025.

Moved ahead of Hamzah

Theodor Compare
In 2019 they stood at #642 and #663 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #962 and #627.
Mathias Compare
In 2017 they stood at #701 and #709 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #897 and #584.
Magnus Compare
In 2013 they stood at #544 and #565 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #684 and #489.
Hudson Compare
In 2010 they stood at #444 and #461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #565 and #401.

Moved the opposite way to Hamzah

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hamzah went from #269 to #711 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hamzah went from #269 to #711 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hamzah went from #269 to #711 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hamzah went from #269 to #711 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Hamzah

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hamzah went from #269 to #711 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hamzah went from #269 to #711 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hamzah went from #269 to #711 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hamzah went from #269 to #711 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #202 in England and Wales in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hamzah

Hamzah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hamzah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Hamzah at a glance

Hamzah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Hamzah moved ahead of

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