Hammad is a distinctive choice, ranked #1675 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Hammad in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#1675
About the Name Hammad
Hammad has seen a notable decline in recent years, dropping 127 places in five years. It was most popular in 2002 at #611 — parents choosing it today are making a deliberately counter-trend decision. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Hammad is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Hammad
Unlikely. With around 15 UK babies named Hammad per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Hammad in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Hammad has been declining in UK popularity, dropping 127 places in the last five years. Its peak was #611 in 2002. Choosing it now means he is likely to be among the last of his generation with this name.
Hammad is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Hammad include: Osama Hammad — Osama Saad Hammad Saleh is a Libyan politician.; Amber Hammad — Amber Hammad is a Pakistani-Australian creative, artist and researcher who has exhibited her artworks at a number of national and international galleries and...; Abderrahmane Hammad — Abderrahmane Hammad Zaheer is the Algerian Minister of Youth and Sports and a former track and field athlete who competed in the high jump..
Hammad does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Hammads in the wild.
15
UK babies named Hammad (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↓ 127 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Hammad
Likely around 1 other Hammad in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Hammad
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Osama Saad Hammad Saleh is a Libyan politician. On 16 May 2023, he was appointed acting prime minister of the Government of National Stability by the House of Representatives.
Amber Hammad is a Pakistani-Australian creative, artist and researcher who has exhibited her artworks at a number of national and international galleries and museums. Her artistic style is multi-disciplinary but she is most well known for grandeur self portraiture in which she challenges and reimagines visibility, invisibility and misrepresentation and questions Islamophobia.
Abderrahmane Hammad Zaheer is the Algerian Minister of Youth and Sports and a former track and field athlete who competed in the high jump. He represented his country at the Summer Olympics in 2000, taking the bronze medal and made a second appearance at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Yaqeen Hammad was a Palestinian social media influencer who was known for sharing humanitarian updates during the Gaza war. She was killed at the age of 11 in an Israeli airstrike on her family's house in Deir al-Balah.
Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman (died 738 CE) was an early Kufan Muslim jurist who is best known for being the principal teacher of Abu Hanifa, the eponym of the Hanafi school of law.
Abu Salma Hammad ibn Salamah ibn Dinar al-Basri (Arabic: حماد بن سلمة بن دينار البصري; died 167 AH/783 CE), the son of Salamah ibn Dinar, was a prominent narrator of hadith and one of the earliest grammarians of the Arabic language. He was noted to have had a great influence on his student, Sibawayh.