Hicham
An Arabic name meaning "generous, noble". In Poland it stays rare: only about 69 men carry it, and the birth records show none given since 2000, so most Poles have never met one.
Hicham Pronunciation
Hicham is pronounced KHEE-khahm (/ˈxixam/).
What Hicham means
Where Hicham comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hicham comes from the Arabic root h-sh-m, which means to break or crush. The story attached to it is about bread. A man would crumble bread into broth to feed travelers during a famine, and from that act the name took its sense of generous and noble.
The closest relative of this root is Hashim, the epithet given to Muhammad's great-grandfather for feeding hungry pilgrims in Mecca. Hicham sits in the same family. In our own era the runner Hicham El Guerrouj carried it far. The Moroccan set the 1500 metre world record in 1998, and it still stands.
On a Polish class register the name reads as foreign, and a teacher may pause before the ch. Children born to Moroccan or Algerian families in Poland wear it at the urząd and in the school corridor. The spelling holds firm across borders. Hicham keeps its meaning: generous, noble.
How many people are named Hicham
1 in 309365 men in Poland is named Hicham. 69 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4345 among male names.
Hicham as a middle name
Hicham is a first name for 69 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7866th, between Hi (2) and Hideo (2).
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#7864 Hezekiah2
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#7865 Hi2
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#7866 Hicham2
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#7867 Hideo2
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#7868 Hidir2