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Wasim

Boys' name

Handsome, graceful

Wasim has been given to 182 babies in the U.S. since 1983. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Wasim, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wasim: meaning, origin, and history

Handsome, graceful

Arabic

What Wasim means

Wasim means “handsome, graceful”, associated with wasīm.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Ultimately from Arabic وَسِيم (wasīm, literally “handsome, graceful”).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Wasim is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Wasim comes through Arabic وَسِيم.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 182 boys were recorded with the name Wasim between 1983 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1999; its best national rank was #6,014 in 1999.

How common is Wasim?

Wasim had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wasim 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wasim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wasims were born

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

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
29.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
182
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Wasim 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (11)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,014
1999

Spellings of Wasim

Wasim is not the most common spelling — Nasir is, with 21.5% against Wasim's 0.22%.

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.

Wasim around the world

Where Wasim 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
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1984–2025
    #4,703
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2018
    #2,536
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Wasim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,014
1999
Peak year
1999
11 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
182
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wasim

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

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Sibling names for Wasim

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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