Ghassem
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡæsəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ghassem is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3M(measured from records)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 126K
- MRMauritania≈1 in 230K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 126K (inferred from the name graph)
111 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ghassem counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 111 | 1 in 3M | 111 | Ghassem | 52 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Ghassem | 3 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Ghassem | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Ghassem | 30 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Ghassem | 12 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Ghassem | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | 2 |
| MR Mauritania | #160 | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Ghassem | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 677K | — | Ghassem | 4 |
111 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gasim bey Zakirb. 1784AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani poet
- Gasym Gasymzadäb. 1923AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani poet, literary critic, translator
- Ghasem Hajizadehb. 1947IRnot in their usual nameIranian modern painter
- Ghasem Sholeh-Saadib. 1954IRnot in their usual nameIranian academic
- Qasem Zarehb. 1957IRnot in their usual nameIranian actor
- Qasem Taeib. 1960IQnot in their usual nameIraqi Grand Ayatollah
- Ghassem Amoabedinyb. 1965IRIranian biotechnologist
- Ghasem Dehnavib. 1981IRnot in their usual nameIranian footballer
- Qasim Al-Lamib. 2000IQnot in their usual nameIraqi weightlifter
- Ghasem Mohammadi KashaniIRnot in their usual nameIranian zoologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 111 | #51,822 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #25,437 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 17 | — |
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ghassem?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡæsəm/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Ghassem a male or female name?
- Ghassem is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ghassem have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 111 people named Ghassem, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghassem.
- How common is the name Ghassem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 111 people named Ghassem in 2020, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
- How common is Ghassem compared with other names?
- In Mauritania, Ghassem is the 160th most common given name of 605 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ghassem?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ghassemThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ghassem” — the 160th most common given name in Mauritania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.