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Wissam

#10,622 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Wisam

Wissam has been given to 257 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #10,622 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Wissam, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wissam: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Wisam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wissam means

Wissam is a alternate transcription of Wisam.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Wissam → 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, 257 boys were recorded with the name Wissam between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2022; its best national rank was #4,657 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,013 in 2020 to #10,622 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,003 in 2015 to #10,622 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 Wissam?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,622
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wissam 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wissam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wissams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wissam was born before 2015 — so the typical Wissam is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
257
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2010s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (114).

Is Wissam 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
−795
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,609
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,619
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.8%
Peak was 2022 (22)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,657
1990

Spellings of Wissam

Wissam is not the most common spelling — Issac is, with 68.5% against Wissam's 0.72%.

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 Wissam is used

Across 1910–2025, Wissam was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,094,860 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 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. Wissam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wissam around the world

Where Wissam 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
    1998–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1975–2025
    #1,135
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Wissam by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,622
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,609
Best rank ever
#4,657
1990
Peak year
2022
22 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
257
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Wissam

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

WisamHussamWisdomBassamWiseIssamWisterWesamHusamEssamHossamIsamHassamArsamWisinHosamWessamWislerEsamWishardQassamBarsamSam

Sibling names for Wissam

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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