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Kasim

#5,719 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Qasim

Kasim has been given to 817 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #5,719 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Kasim, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kasim: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Qasim

Arabic

What Kasim means

Kasim is a alternate transcription of Qasim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kasim → Qasim. The family’s meaning is “one who divides goods among people”, recorded in the naming reference for Qasim.

Origin, language, and formation

Kasim is used in English and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Qasim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 817 boys were recorded with the name Kasim between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2004; its best national rank was #2,781 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,139 in 2020 to #5,719 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,881 in 2015 to #5,719 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.

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How common is Kasim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,719
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kasim 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kasim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kasims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kasim was born before 2004 — so the typical Kasim is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
817
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Choose a decade

2000s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (220).

Is Kasim 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
−382
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−580
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,162
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
51.6%
Peak was 2004 (31)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,781
1991

Spellings of Kasim

Kasim is not the most common spelling — Kai is, with 25.0% against Kasim's 0.29%.

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 Kasim is used

Across 1910–2025, Kasim was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 284,377 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Kasim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kasim around the world

Where Kasim 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1983–2009
    #626
    in 2009
  • France
    1978–2025
    #3,595
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1979–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Kasim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,719
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 580
Best rank ever
#2,781
1991
Peak year
2004
31 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
817
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Kasim

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

KassimKasaiKasynKasinKasraKaseemKasirKashifKasperKaschKastonKashtynAasimQasimNasimKashawnKashusKassiusKassemKashmirKastenKasemKassidyKasiah

Sibling names for Kasim

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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