Hamdan

surname · Latin script

Meaning: much praise; a tribe in Arabia

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈhæmdən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hamdan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Syria it is the 74th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • JOJordan≈1 in 687(inferred from the name graph)
  • SYSyria≈1 in 1.7K
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 2.2K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈23,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
268 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 687 (inferred from the name graph)

Jordan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HamdanLatin(measured from records)
ฮัมดันThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

much praise; a tribe in Arabia

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hamdan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Hamdan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia—≈23,000 est.≈1 in 12KlistedHamdan125
JO Jordan#83≈16,000 est.≈1 in 687—Hamdan104
MY Malaysia#101≈15,000 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Hamdan68
SY Syria#74≈11,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Hamdan36
SA Saudi Arabia#424≈6,900 est.≈1 in 5K—Hamdan115
AE United Arab Emirates#137≈3,300 est.≈1 in 3K—Hamdan124
US United States—2,4121 in 138K3.3KHamdan268
KW Kuwait#244≈670 est.≈1 in 4.5K—Hamdan56

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hamdan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Hamdàn, Ḥamdān, Hämdâñ, Hämdän

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Ḥamdān, Hamḏān, Hamdân

  • Bangla surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, India, Bangladesh, United States

    Also written হামদান, Hämdäñ

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, Syria

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Хамдан

  • Pashto surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Türkiye, India

    Also written Ḥamdān

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hamdan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, praise

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • Bondad

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000George Habash, b. 1926Gamal Hamdan, b. 1928Jamal Hamdan, b. 1958Gassan Hamdan, b. 1973Yasmine Hamdan, b. 1976Dana Hamdan, b. 1979Gibran Hamdan, b. 1981Zaid Abu Hamdan, b. 1982Mais Hamdan, b. 1982

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Hamdan,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 59 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Hamdan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.3K#9,391
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.4K#12,789
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.6K#16,489

Reference works 6

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hamdan mean, and where does it come from?
much praise; a tribe in Arabia Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
How do you pronounce Hamdan?
A machine transcription gives /ˈhæmdən/ (IPA) for Arabic.
In which country does Hamdan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Hamdan in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hamdan.
How common is the name Hamdan?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,412 people named Hamdan in 2010, about 1 in 138 thousand residents.
How common is Hamdan compared with other names?
In Syria, Hamdan is the 74th most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hamdan” — the 74th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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