Hamid
Rare enough that most Poles have never met one: fewer than 120 men in the country carry it, and no boys were given it last year. Arabic in origin, it means "praiseworthy".
Hamid Pronunciation
Hamid is pronounced KHAH-meet (/ˈxamit/).
What Hamid means
Where Hamid comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hamid comes from Arabic, and it means praiseworthy. It shares a three-letter root, h-m-d, with Muhammad and Ahmad, the root Arabic uses for the idea of praise. The word points less at the person and more at what the person earns.
That same root reaches the divine. Al-Hamid, the Praiseworthy, stands among the ninety-nine names of God in Islam, the one to whom praise is owed. A boy called Hamid answers, in a small way, to that vocabulary.
Real bearers ground it. Hamid Karzai served as the first elected president of Afghanistan. Abdul Hamid II ruled the late Ottoman Empire.
In Poland the name lands on newer paper. A teacher reads it from a class register, and it sits between a Jakub and a Zofia without much fuss. The origin stays Arabic, the meaning stays praiseworthy.
How many people are named Hamid
1 in 182446 men in Poland is named Hamid. 117 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3125 among male names.
Hamid as a middle name
Hamid is a first name for 117 men in Poland and a middle name for another 30, an 80/20 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1534th, between Gamal (30) and Harris (30).
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#1532 Ewan30
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#1533 Gamal30
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#1534 Hamid30
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#1535 Harris30
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#1536 Ivar30