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Waseem

#5,193 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Wasim

Waseem has been given to 794 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #5,193 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Waseem, 2025

1 in 174,000

Waseem over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Waseem: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Wasim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Waseem means

Waseem is a alternate transcription of Wasim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Waseem → Wasim. The family’s meaning is “handsome, graceful”, recorded in English with the source elements wasīm.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Wasim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 794 boys were recorded with the name Waseem between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2020; its best national rank was #2,934 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,266 in 2020 to #5,193 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,395 in 2015 to #5,193 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 Waseem?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,193
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Waseem 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Waseem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Waseems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Waseem was born before 2007 — so the typical Waseem is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
794
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Choose a decade

2010s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (240).

Is Waseem 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
+973
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,927
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−798
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.3%
Peak was 2020 (35)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,934
1987

Spellings of Waseem

Waseem is not the most common spelling — Kareem is, with 27.7% against Waseem's 1.2%.

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 Waseem is used

Across 1910–2025, Waseem was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 913,531 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —
  6. 6Virginia1 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. Waseem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Waseem around the world

Where Waseem 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
  • Scotland
    1980–1986
    #317
    in 1986
  • France
    2019–2019
    #6,681
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1977–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Waseem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,193
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,927
Best rank ever
#2,934
1987
Peak year
2020
35 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
794
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Waseem

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

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Sibling names for Waseem

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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