Hamida

Locally spelled Hamidah in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia.

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.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Hamida is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Hindi45%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Hamida in Hindi.

• Bangla11%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Hamida in Bangla.

• Arabic8.9%

  praises

  as a name·African Muslim Names

  praised, commended, praiseworthy, commendable; fem. of Hamid. See Hamid (m.); Mahmuda 3.454... Hamida Banu Begum: mother of Mughal emperor Akbar.“

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• English7.8%

  praiser (of Allah); fern. of Hamid

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• French5.7%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Hamida in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Hamida is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, India, Philippines

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Hâmïdâ, Hâmida, Hàmidà, Hãmįdã, Ḥamīda

• a separate name6 spellings in the group

  Also written Hāmida, Hämidä, Ḥamīda, Hamīda, Hāmidā

• Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Hungary

  Languages: Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish

  Also written Hàmidà

• Amharic given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ethiopia, India, Philippines, Türkiye

  Also written ሀምዳ, ሃምዳ, ሀሚዳ, ሃሚዳ

39 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.

Hamida 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 German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• gracious

  as a name·Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

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.

• Hamida Javanshirb. 1873AZAzerbaijani philanthropist and women's rights activist (1873-1955)
• Hamida al-Attasb. 1943SAMother of Osama bin Laden
• Hamida Barmakib. 1970AFAfghan activist (1970-2011)

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).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

68 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 41 countries.

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

Where does the name Hamida come from?

praiser (of Allah); fern. of Hamid Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.

What are other forms of the name Hamida?

In the etymology graph, Hamide is a form of the same name in other languages.

Is Hamida a male or female name?

Hamida is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; France (INSEE, 2020): listed as female; Spain (INE): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.

What does the name Hamida mean?

In Arabic, praised, commended, praiseworthy, commendable; fem. of Hamid. See Hamid (m.); Mahmuda 3.454... Hamida Banu Begum: mother of Mughal emperor Akbar.“

Which countries have the most people named Hamida?

Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Hamida in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hamida. After it come Afghanistan, Tanzania, Bangladesh and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Hamida?

In the United States, the national register counted 1,368 people named Hamida in 2020, about 1 in 243 thousand residents.

How common is Hamida compared with other names?

In Malaysia, Hamida is the 128th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.