Hamza in Arabic: How to Write حمزة, and What It Means

Hamza in Arabic is حمزة, pronounced Ḥamza. Hamza is an Arabic name, so it has a fixed Arabic spelling. It has four letters: ḥāʾ, mīm, zāy and tāʾ marbūṭa. With its vowel marks it is حَمْزَة. The name means lion (an old word).

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Hamza in Arabic calligraphy: حمزة in three styles

Three renders of حمزة, in Amiri, Reem Kufi and Aref Ruqaa, drawn straight from the font files.

How حمزة is spelled, letter by letter

حمزة has four letters, read from right to left, starting with the letter ح, ḥāʾ. One letter, ز zāy, never joins the letter after it, so حمزة always shows one small gap. Arabic writes only long vowels as letters. The two short vowels are marks that everyday spelling leaves out; حَمْزَة shows them.

What does Hamza mean?

Hamza means lion (an old word), from the Arabic root ح م ز. That is the meaning our Arabic name generator gives it, and the list of Arabic boy names with their meanings repeats it with its sources.

Behind the Name gives lion, from an old word meaning strong or sturdy. Its best-known early bearer is Ḥamza, an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad who was killed in battle.

Hamza in Latin letters and in Arabic

Hamza was one of the 1,000 most common names given to boys born in the US in 2024, in the Social Security Administration's 2024 national file, as copied in the usbabynames data package. Whatever Latin spelling you start from, the Arabic is حمزة. Hamza is also the name of a letter, the hamza, ء, but the name is not spelled with it: it starts with ḥāʾ, ح, the breathy h, and ends in tāʾ marbūṭa, ة.

Do not build Hamza from its English sound. A sound-by-sound converter turns it into هامزا, letter by letter h, aa, m, z, aa, and that is what the rule engine of our own name tool gives, marked as an estimate. Arabic already has this name, so copy حمزة.

The titles Arabic Wikipedia gives people called Hamza show how Arabic writers handle the name:

The English footballer Hamza Choudhury is حمزة تشودهاري: the Arabic spelling of his first name.

Two related names on this site are Omar in Arabic, عمر and Muhammad in Arabic, محمد. For Arabic names to choose from, browse the Arabic boy names with their meanings, part of our Arabic vocabulary lists.

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