The Hamid surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,433 people carried this name — #9,473 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 86,200 people counted. That is up 50% from 2,295 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 238 people named Hamid live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
178 people named Hamid live in Switzerland.
They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 100 people named Hamid.
Most of them — 67 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Essonne.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
1,419 people named Hamid are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Hamid in American newspapers,
1909–1912.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 26,574 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Hamid,
with a public archive behind them.
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Abdul Hamid I 1725–1789 · sultan -
Raouf Abbas 1939–2008 · writer -
Raouf Abbas 1939–2008 · writer
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Raouf Abbas 1939–2008 · writer
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Raouf Abbas 1939–2008 · writer
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Hussein Hamid 1932–2020 · economist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Hamid.
- Hameline 115 · U.S. census
- Hamen 175 · U.S. census
- Hamer 6,783 · U.S. census
- Hames 3,633 · U.S. census
- Hamet 117 · U.S. census
- Hami 173 · U.S. census
- Hamidi 809 · U.S. census
- Hamilton 201,746 · U.S. census
- Hamm 26,726 · U.S. census
- Hamma 244 · U.S. census
- Hammad 1,126 · U.S. census
- Hamman 4,555 · U.S. census
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