Khamzat
Fewer than 90 men in Poland carry it, nearly all born in one short stretch of the early 2000s and none since. Arabic in origin, it means "lion".
Khamzat Pronunciation
Khamzat is pronounced KKHAHM-zaht (/ˈkxamzat/).
What Khamzat means
Where Khamzat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Khamzat comes from the Arabic Hamza. In the North Caucasus, among Chechen and Ingush speakers, Hamza took the fuller form Khamzat, opening with the kh sound the region favours. The Arabic name has long been read as "lion," and Polish reaches for the same word: lew.
The reading has a famous anchor. Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib, an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad, earned the title Asadullah, the Lion of God, for his bravery in the early years of Islam. His name passed east and north across Muslim communities, and the Caucasus shaped it into Khamzat.
Today the form is widely recognised through Khamzat Chimaev, the Chechen-born mixed martial artist. A child called Khamzat on a Polish school register carries a name Warsaw hears as foreign and the Caucasus hears as home. Its meaning stays fixed: lion, lew.
How many people are named Khamzat
1 in 242570 men in Poland is named Khamzat. 88 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3755 among male names.
Khamzat's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.