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Hashem

#3,542 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Hashim

Hashem has been given to 608 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #3,542 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Hashem, 2025

1 in 104,000

Hashem over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hashem: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hashim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hashem means

Hashem is a form of Hashim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hashem → Hashim. The family’s meaning is “to destroy, smash”, recorded in English with the source elements hašama.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hashim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 608 boys were recorded with the name Hashem between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,012 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,056 in 2020 to #3,542 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,592 in 2015 to #3,542 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hashem?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 53,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,542
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hashem sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hashem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hashems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hashem was born before 2015 — so the typical Hashem is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
608
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (220).

Is Hashem rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−530
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+514
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,050
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.0%
Peak was 2024 (41)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,012
2024

Spellings of Hashem

Hashem is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 83.7% against Hashem's 0.46%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hashem is used

Across 1910–2025, Hashem was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 706,324 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hashem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hashem around the world

Where Hashem ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2024
    #5,875
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1985–1985
    #449
    in 1985

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hashem by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,542
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 514
Best rank ever
#3,012
2024
Peak year
2024
41 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
608
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Hashem

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hashem

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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