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Wesam

#13,789 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Wisam

Wesam has been given to 371 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #13,789 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Wesam, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wesam: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Wisam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wesam means

Wesam is a alternate transcription of Wisam.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Wesam is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /wi.ˈsaːm/ for Wesam.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Wesam → Wisam. The family’s meaning is “badge, medal”, recorded in the naming reference for Wisam.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Wisam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 371 boys were recorded with the name Wesam between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,392 in 1979.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,970 in 2015 to #13,789 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.

How common is Wesam?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,789
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wesam 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wesam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wesams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wesam was born before 2003 — so the typical Wesam is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
371
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Choose a decade

2010s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (127).

Is Wesam 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
−1,528
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,819
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.7%
Peak was 2014 (22)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,392
1979

Spellings of Wesam

Wesam is not the most common spelling — Sam is, with 55.5% against Wesam's 0.16%.

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 Wesam is used

Across 1910–2025, Wesam was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,305,968 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —
  2. 2Ohio1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Wesam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wesam around the world

Where Wesam 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
    1998–2019
    #3,937
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2016–2016
    #2,748
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Wesam by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,789
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,392
1979
Peak year
2014
22 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
371
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Wesam

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

WeslieWessWessamWeslyHusamWisamWestlyWeslynIssamWesleeWestleeEssamIsamHussamWissamWestenBassamWestynWessonWestWessleyWeslinWestynnWeslan

Sibling names for Wesam

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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