The Hammad surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,126 people carried this name — #22,749 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 263,200 people counted. That is up 56% from 723 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Hammad surname
Variant of Hamad.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Hammad» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 100 people named Hammad.
Most of them — 57 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.
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 Belgium’s population register
At least 94 people named Hammad 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 Brussels-Capital.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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
51 people named Hammad live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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 the Nordic population registers
163 people named Hammad is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
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).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Hammad.
- Hami 173 · U.S. census
- Hamid 3,433 · 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
- Hamman 4,555 · U.S. census
- Hammann 839 · U.S. census
- Hamme 614 · U.S. census
- Hammel 5,146 · U.S. census
- Hammer 21,709 · U.S. census
- Hammerschmidt 1,090 · U.S. census
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