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Qasim

#2,327 in 2025Boys' name

One who divides goods among people

Qasim has been given to 1,239 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #2,327 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Qasim, 2025

1 in 55,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Qasim: meaning, origin, and history

One who divides goods among people

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Qasim means

Qasim means “one who divides goods among people”.

Origin, language, and formation

Qasim is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,239 boys were recorded with the name Qasim between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 60 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,327 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,186 in 2020 to #2,327 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,207 in 2015 to #2,327 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 Qasim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 55,300
60 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 28,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,327
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,299 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Qasim 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 38,299 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Qasim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Qasims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Qasim was born before 2011 — so the typical Qasim is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,239
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (373).

Is Qasim 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
+138
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+859
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+880
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (60)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,327
2025

Spellings of Qasim

Qasim is not the most common spelling — Nasir is, with 22.9% against Qasim's 1.6%.

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 Qasim is used

Across 2016–2025, Qasim was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 41,747 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 16,667
  2. 2Illinois1 in 25,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 50,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

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.

Qasim around the world

Where Qasim 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
    #914
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1987–2017
    #602
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2008–2018
    #749
    in 2018
  • France
    2002–2025
    #1,146
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,037
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Qasim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,327
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 859
Best rank ever
#2,327
2025
Peak year
2025
60 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,239
Count in 2025
60

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

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