Hisham
Boy name · 3 babies recorded · 1974–2025
Hisham: 3 babies born in Scotland since 1974, given to boys, peaking at 3 births in 2000.
Hisham is an Arabic name meaning "generous" or "bountiful," rooted in the Semitic word for liberality. It was borne by the 10th Umayyad caliph, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, who ruled an empire stretching from Spain to Central Asia in the 8th century, and more recently by the acclaimed Libyan-British author Hisham Matar, whose memoir *The Return* won the Pulitzer Prize. While no major Scottish places share the name, it appears in street names and community centres across multicultural Glasgow and Edinburgh. A notable variant is Hicham,
Boy 1 of 52 years
- Peak year
- 20003 babies
- Latest (2000)
- #4293 babies
- Total births
- 3since 2000
- 5-year trend
- ≈ stablevs prior 5y