Hamah as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Hamah

What is the meaning of the name Hamah ?

The baby name Hamah is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈhɑːmə/ (HAH-mah).

Hamah is Semitic in Origin.

Hamah is a rare cross‑Semitic given name with roots in Hebrew and the ancient Levant. In Hebrew, ḥammah (חמה) denotes "sun," "radiant heat," and by extension "ardor," a poetic term found in the Bible; as a personal name it has seen occasional, mostly feminine, use in Jewish communities. The name also serves as a toponymic drawn from the renowned Syrian city known in Scripture as Hamath and in Arabic today as Ḥamāh, a center of Aramaic and later Arabic culture.

Variants include Hama, Chamah/Chammah (reflecting the guttural ḥet), Hammah, and the archaic Hamath; in Arabic transliteration, Ḥamāh. Etymologies proposed for the place‑name connect it either to a West Semitic root ḥmt "fortified place/citadel" or to ḥammat "hot spring," both plausible in Levantine geography. Thus Hamah can mean "sun; warmth; fervor" or "one from Hamath/Hama." The Japanese surname/given element Hama ("seashore") is a coincidental homograph.

⚙ Hamah is a rare find. There are only 78 recorded uses of it in our data, from 22 countries.