Hamid

For places in Iran, see Hamid, Iran. For the village in Pakistan, see Hameed, Attock.

Hamid
Origin
Pronunciation	Arabic: [ħaˈmiːd] Urdu: [ɦɛˈmiːd̪]
Gender	Male
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	Praiseworthy
Other names
Variant form(s)	Hamed, Hameed
Related names	Hamad, Hamit

Hamid refers to two different but related Arabic given names, both of which come from the Arabic triconsonantal root of Ḥ-M-D (ح-م-د):

Ḥāmed (Arabic: حَامِد ḥāmid) also spelled Haamed, Hamid or Hamed, and in Turkish Hamit; it means "lauder" or "one who praises".
Ḥamīd (Arabic: حَمِيد ḥamīd) also spelled Hamid, or Hameed, in Turkish is Hamit, and in Azeri is Həmid or Һәмид; it means "lauded" or "praiseworthy".

Given name

Hamid Ahmadi (historian) (b. 1945), Iranian historian
Hamid Ahmadi (futsal) (b. 1988), Iranian futsal player
Hamid Ahmadieh (born 1953), Iranian ophthalmologist and medical scientist
Hamid Al Shaeri (b. 1961), Egyptian-Libyan singer, songwriter, and musician
Hamid Arasly (1902–1983), Azeri and Soviet scientist
Hamid Arzulu (b. 1937), Azerbaijani poet and writer
Hamid Idris Awate (1910–1962), Eritrean guerrilla commander
Hamid Berhili (b. 1964), Moroccan boxer
Hamid Mahmood Butt, Pakistani ophthalmologist
Hamid Chitchian (b. c. 1957), Iranian politician
Hamid Drake (b. 1955), American musician
Hamid Etemad (b. 1945), Iranian professor
Hamid Frangieh (1907–1981), Lebanese politician
Hamid Gabbay (b. c. 1943), Iranian-born American architect
Hamid Ghandehari, Iranian-American drug chemist
Hamid Gul (1936–2015), Pakistani politician
Hamid Guska (b. 1953), head coach of Bosnian national boxing team
Hamid Hassani (b. 1968), Iranian lexicographer
Hamid Ismailov (b. 1954), Uzbek journalist
Hamid Karzai (b. 1957), President of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014
Hamid Merakchi (1976-2024), Algerian footballer
Hamid Hussain Musavi (1830-1888), Indian scholar
Hamid Notghi (1920–1999), Iranian Azeri poet, writer, author, university professor
Hamid Olimjon (1909–1944), Uzbek poet and scholar
Hamid Ekrem Šahinović (1879/1882–1936), Bosnian writer and dramatist
Hamid Naderi Yeganeh (b. 1990), Iranian mathematical artist

Hamed / Hameed

Hamed Gohar (1907–1992), Egyptian oceanographer
Hamed Haddadi (b. 1985), Iranian basketball player
Hamed Haghshenas (b. 1994), Iranian para taekwondo practitioner
Hameed Haroon, Pakistani economist
Hamed Namouchi (b. 1984), Tunisian footballer
Hameed Nizami (1915–1962), Pakistani journalist
Hamed Rasouli (b. 1985), Iranian footballer
Hamed Sohrabnejad (b. 1983), Iranian basketball player
Hamed Traorè (b. 2000), Ivorian footballer

Middle name

Abed Hamed Mowhoush (1947-2003), Iraqi general
Awad Hamed al-Bandar (1945–2007), Iraqi chief judge
Mohammad Hamid Ansari (b. 1937), vice-president of India

Surname

For people called Abdul Hamid, see Abdul Hamid (name).

Alejandro Hamed (1934–2023), Paraguayan diplomat and Arabist
Amir Hamed (1962–2017), Uruguayan writer and translator
Amr Hamed (d. 1998), Canadian terrorist
Ezzedin Yacoub Hamed, Egyptian Long Jumper
Haseeb Hameed (b. 1997), English cricketer
Ibrahim Hamed, Hamas military commander
Mohsin Hamid (b. 1971), Pakistani British author
Jasmin Hamid (born 1984), Finnish actress
Mohamed Naguib Hamed (born 1962), Egyptian athlete
Naseem Hamed (b. 1974), British boxer
Nima Arkani-Hamed (b. 1972), Iranian-American-Canadian theoretical physicist
Rani Hamid (b. 1944), Bangladeshi chess player
Sanaa Ismail Hamed (b. 1984), Egyptian model
Taha Bidaywi Hamed, Iraqi politician
Yasmeen Hameed (born 1952), Pakistani Urdu poet
Zid Abou Hamed (b. 1970), Australian athlete

References

Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company.
S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books.

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