Hamlet Forename
38,187th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 19,734 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Armenia
Highest density in:
Armenia
Hamlet Forename Definition:
Found as a baptismal name. There does not appear to be any etymological connexion between this name and Hamnet. According to some the name in Hamlet’s country was pronounced Amlet, and signifies ‘madman,’ but no etymology has been suggested for such rendering.
Read More About This ForenameHamlet Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armenia | 100% | 9,887 | 1:295 | 58 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 2,169 | 1:4,446 | 791 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 1,946 | 1:5,360 | 773 |
| United States | 100% | 996 | 1:363,993 | 10,642 |
| Georgia | 100% | 811 | 1:4,610 | 554 |
| Indonesia | - | 417 | 1:618,618 | 43,904 |
| India | 100% | 379 | 1:3,205,483 | 142,659 |
| Mexico | 100% | 311 | 1:399,178 | 5,015 |
| Ukraine | 99% | 306 | 1:148,693 | 1,075 |
| Uganda | 60% | 276 | 1:148,395 | 5,815 |
| Malawi | 75% | 275 | 1:62,227 | 3,900 |
| Philippines | 94% | 242 | 1:438,056 | 15,241 |
| South Africa | 100% | 128 | 1:426,036 | 21,442 |
| Cameroon | - | 119 | 1:181,601 | 7,932 |
| Russia | 100% | 116 | 1:1,243,394 | 9,912 |
| Peru | 97% | 92 | 1:345,559 | 7,157 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 92 | 1:328,281 | 10,079 |
| Jamaica | - | 84 | 1:34,324 | 2,250 |
| Brazil | 100% | 82 | 1:2,612,636 | 50,582 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 76 | 1:2,336,373 | 44,538 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 64 | 1:53,557 | 1,869 |
| Colombia | 100% | 59 | 1:809,812 | 10,156 |
| Nicaragua | 96% | 52 | 1:115,737 | 3,776 |
| Spain | 100% | 50 | 1:930,599 | 8,430 |
| Iraq | 100% | 48 | 1:729,539 | 6,887 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 40 | 1:34,035 | 3,464 |
| Argentina | 97% | 37 | 1:1,156,034 | 5,603 |
| England | 100% | 34 | 1:1,635,380 | 22,533 |
| Canada | 100% | 33 | 1:1,004,042 | 20,062 |
| Sweden | 97% | 33 | 1:298,724 | 9,079 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 31 | 1:497,542 | 22,517 |
| Greece | 100% | 28 | 1:390,520 | 5,921 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 25 | 1:9,737 | 795 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 22 | 1:2,434 | 368 |
| Albania | 100% | 21 | 1:145,075 | 8,676 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 21 | 1:332,876 | 6,441 |
| Guyana | 100% | 20 | 1:38,163 | 3,889 |
| Chile | 94% | 17 | 1:1,035,718 | 9,287 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 17 | 1:947,555 | 4,610 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 16 | 1:297,997 | 5,686 |
| Honduras | 100% | 16 | 1:551,092 | 8,007 |
| France | 100% | 14 | 1:4,747,881 | 19,704 |
| China | - | 11 | 1:124,186,889 | 65,712 |
| Ecuador | - | 11 | 1:1,611,538 | 10,117 |
| Turkey | 50% | 11 | 1:7,072,883 | 27,150 |
| Zambia | - | 11 | 1:1,441,345 | 17,789 |
| El Salvador | - | 9 | 1:704,643 | 5,397 |
| Malaysia | 100% | 9 | 1:3,383,327 | 86,111 |
| Belgium | 100% | 8 | 1:1,436,255 | 15,198 |
| Hong Kong | - | 8 | 1:969,091 | 5,961 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 8 | 1:2,112,760 | 26,769 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 7 | 1:15,940 | 2,043 |
| Austria | 100% | 6 | 1:1,419,034 | 8,656 |
| Dominica | - | 6 | 1:12,578 | 436 |
| Cuba | - | 5 | 1:2,301,310 | 5,387 |
| Germany | 83% | 5 | 1:19,335,575 | 51,270 |
| Panama | - | 5 | 1:781,311 | 18,191 |
| Thailand | 67% | 5 | 1:14,013,163 | 173,193 |
| Australia | - | 4 | 1:3,414,406 | 25,298 |
| Belarus | 100% | 4 | 1:2,370,596 | 9,928 |
| Egypt | - | 4 | 1:22,975,236 | 27,891 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 4 | 1:4,436,711 | 24,678 |
| Kenya | - | 4 | 1:11,576,778 | 40,588 |
| North Macedonia | - | 4 | 1:522,689 | 9,487 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 4 | 1:44,454 | 3,465 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 4 | 1:7,703,141 | 17,485 |
| Singapore | 100% | 4 | 1:1,571,764 | 18,508 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 4 | 1:1,787,998 | 44,562 |
| Bolivia | - | 3 | 1:3,533,801 | 5,917 |
| Iran | - | 3 | 1:26,165,623 | 45,792 |
| Italy | 100% | 3 | 1:20,354,030 | 45,650 |
| Kosovo | - | 3 | 1:620,480 | 13,695 |
| Liberia | 100% | 3 | 1:1,470,687 | 25,732 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 2 | 1:16,311,758 | 48,279 |
| Algeria | - | 2 | 1:19,088,360 | 22,377 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Grenada | 100% | 2 | 1:54,062 | 3,078 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 2 | 1:2,813,786 | 13,895 |
| Namibia | - | 2 | 1:1,202,090 | 12,702 |
| Norway | - | 2 | 1:2,566,164 | 24,989 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 2 | 1:290,478 | 6,813 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 2 | 1:4,106,748 | 25,883 |
| Taiwan | - | 2 | 1:11,884,841 | 132,786 |
| Ireland | 100% | 1 | 1:4,643,519 | 13,375 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1 | 1:159,461,366 | 36,167 |
| Belize | - | 1 | 1:354,309 | 7,663 |
| Botswana | - | 1 | 1:2,184,449 | 21,741 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Czechia | 100% | 1 | 1:10,656,162 | 11,509 |
| Denmark | - | 1 | 1:5,649,498 | 28,429 |
| Estonia | 100% | 1 | 1:1,315,380 | 8,883 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Israel | 100% | 1 | 1:8,402,918 | 45,019 |
| New Zealand | - | 1 | 1:4,536,044 | 17,392 |
| Pakistan | - | 1 | 1:194,357,680 | 303,535 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 1 | 1:8,152,314 | 202,620 |
| Poland | 63% | 1 | 1:38,027,112 | 9,241 |
| Portugal | - | 1 | 1:10,410,866 | 12,786 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Scotland | - | 1 | 1:5,350,366 | 24,769 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| South Korea | - | 1 | 1:5,544,421 | 37,250 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1 | 1:20,799,087 | 16,824 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
| Wales | 100% | 1 | 1:3,094,309 | 16,222 |
Hamlet (7,500) may also be a surname.
Hamlet Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Found as a baptismal name. There does not appear to be any etymological connexion between this name and Hamnet. According to some the name in Hamlet’s country was pronounced Amlet, and signifies ‘madman,’ but no etymology has been suggested for such rendering. Amlet is the same name as Amleth, mentioned in the Danske Historie of Saxo Grammaticus (1752, 72-8), and Amlethus, King of Denmark and Sweden, found in Zedler’s Lexicon. The name is from the Old German amal-laut, distinguished for spotlessness. See Hamnet.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
A Teutonic name, meaning: A small cottage.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Hamlet Forename Popularity
Hamlet Demographics
Average Hamlet Salary in
United States
$47,054 USD
Per year
Rank:
159,662 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.000281972
Rank: 10,475 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
108.1%
Sample size: 494 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
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