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Wisam

#8,212 in 2025Boys' name

Badge, medal

Wisam has been given to 305 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #8,212 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Wisam, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wisam: meaning, origin, and history

Badge, medal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wisam means

Wisam means “badge, medal”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 305 boys were recorded with the name Wisam between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,489 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,012 in 2020 to #8,212 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,467 in 2015 to #8,212 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 Wisam?

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
#8,212
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wisam 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 Wisam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wisams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wisam was born before 2010 — so the typical Wisam is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
305
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (90).

Is Wisam 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
−1,407
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,200
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−745
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.91×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2014 (16)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,489
1981

Spellings of Wisam

Wisam is not the most common spelling — Liam is, with 67.4% against Wisam's 0.06%.

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.

Wisam around the world

Where Wisam 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
    2003–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–2022
    #7,258
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1998–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Wisam by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,212
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,200
Best rank ever
#4,489
1981
Peak year
2014
16 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
305
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Wisam

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

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Sibling names for Wisam

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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