Hamid

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Pashto / Arabic (Afghanistan, Pakistan)

Meaning

an Arabic masculine name meaning the praiser of God, the one who gives thanks, or the praiseworthy one, from the root h-m-d (حمد) meaning to praise, to thank, to give gratitude; Hamid is one of the ninety-nine names of God (Asma Allah al-Husna) — Al-Hamid means the All-Praised or the Praiseworthy — making it a name of profound Islamic significance; names built on the h-m-d root — Ahmad, Muhammad, Mahmud, Hamid, Hamed — form one of the largest clusters of Islamic masculine names and are among the most common names in the Muslim world; in Afghanistan Hamid gained particular international recognition through Hamid Karzai, who served as the first President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014 and whose name became globally known during the post-9/11 reconstruction period

Gender

male

Also spelled

Hamed, Hameed