Hamid Explained

Hamid
Pronunciation:	pronounced as /ar/ in Urdu ɦɛˈmiːd̪/
Gender:	Male
Meaning:	Praiseworthy
Origin:	Arabic
Related Names:	Hamad, Hamit
Variant Forms:	Hamed, Hameed

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

1. (Arabic: Arabic: حَامِد ḥāmid) also spelled Haamed, Hamid or Hamed, and in Turkish Hamit; it means "lauder" or "one who praises".^{[1] [2]}
2. (Arabic: 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

• Hamid Ahmadi (historian) (b. 1945), Iranian historian
• Hamid Ahmadi (futsal) (b. 1988), Iranian futsal player
• Hamid Ahmadieh, 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.), Iranian politician
• Hamid Drake (b. 1955), American musician
• Hamid Etemad (b. 1945), Iranian professor
• Hamid Frangieh (1907–1981), Lebanese politician
• Hamid Gabbay (b.), 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 Hussain Musavi, 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
• 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, Iraqi general
• Awad Hamed al-Bandar (1945–2007), Iraqi chief judge
• Mohammad Hamid Ansari (b. 1937), vice-president of India

Surname

• 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, Finnish actress
• Mohamed Naguib Hamed, 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, Pakistani Urdu poet
• Zid Abou Hamed (b. 1970), Australian athlete

See also

• Abu Hamid Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Al-Ghazali Persian theologian, philosopher, jurist
• Al Hamed, town in Egypt near Rosetta
• Hameed a village in Hazro Tehsil, Punjab, Pakistan
• Abdul Hamid
• Hamid al-Din (disambiguation)
• Hamidids, 14th century Turkic dynasty
• Hamit
• Hamidah (disambiguation)

References

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