boys:
555 births since 1976
#4031 (12th percentile)
overall:
555 births since 1976
#7184 (7th percentile)
The name Hamed is the #7,184 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 555 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 7.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,031 (12.0% percentile) for all time with 555 births since 1976.
Hamed first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (first recorded for boys in 1976).
For boys, Hamed reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #669) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Hamed ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 90.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hamed".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Hamed. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.1% confident that Hamed is pronounced as hah-MEHD, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HAH-mehd, at 14.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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