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Hashim

#1,998 in 2025Boys' name

To destroy, smash

Hashim has been given to 1,984 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,998 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 90 recorded.

Babies named Hashim, 2025

1 in 43,600

Hashim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hashim: meaning, origin, and history

To destroy, smash

Arabic

What Hashim means

Hashim means “to destroy, smash”, associated with hašama.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Arabic هَاشِم (hāšim, “Hashim”). The name signifies “breaker of bread”, from هَشَمَ (hašama, “to destroy, smash”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Hashim (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Hashim is used in English and Albanian. Its origins include Arabic.

Hashim comes through Arabic هَاشِم.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,984 boys were recorded with the name Hashim between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 90 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,274 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,055 in 2020 to #1,998 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,094 in 2015 to #1,998 in 2025.

How common is Hashim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,600
76 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 22,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,998
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,237 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hashim 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,237 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hashim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hashims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hashim was born before 2010 — so the typical Hashim is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,984
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Choose a decade

2010s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (669).

Is Hashim 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
+218
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+57
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+96
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.4%
Peak was 2016 (90)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,274
1977

Spellings of Hashim

Hashim is not the most common spelling — Rashid is, with 15.8% against Hashim's 12.2%.

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 Hashim is used

Across 2016–2025, Hashim was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 25,072 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 11,111
  2. 2New York1 in 11,111
  3. 3Ohio1 in 14,286
  4. 4Illinois1 in 20,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 25,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 25,000
  7. 7California1 in 50,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 50,000

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.

Hashim around the world

Where Hashim 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
    #563
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1989–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    2005–2025
    #4,380
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #1,011
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Hashim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,998
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 57
Best rank ever
#1,274
1977
Peak year
2016
90 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,984
Count in 2025
76

Names similar to Hashim

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

HasaniHasaanHashemHashirHassonHasanHaskelHassanRahimHassenJoachimHastonHasselHaseebHaskellHasnainHastenAbrahimElohimEbrahimHassaniHasielBrahimHassell

Sibling names for Hashim

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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