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Wassim

#8,209 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Wasim

Wassim has been given to 294 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #8,209 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Wassim, 2025

1 in 332,000

Wassim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wassim: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Wasim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wassim means

Wassim is a alternate transcription of Wasim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Wassim → 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, 294 boys were recorded with the name Wassim between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2019; its best national rank was #4,622 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,683 in 2020 to #8,209 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,702 in 2015 to #8,209 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 Wassim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,209
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wassim 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wassim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wassims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wassim was born before 2013 — so the typical Wassim is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
294
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Wassim 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
+734
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+474
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+493
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.5%
Peak was 2019 (22)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,622
2019

Spellings of Wassim

Wassim is not the most common spelling — Massimo is, with 24.4% against Wassim's 1.8%.

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.

Wassim around the world

Where Wassim 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
    2000–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1976–2025
    #147
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,331
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #540
    in 1996

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.

Wassim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,209
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 474
Best rank ever
#4,622
2019
Peak year
2019
22 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
294
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Wassim

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

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Sibling names for Wassim

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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