Fahim
given name · Latin script
Meaning: intelligent
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɑɪm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fahim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 874(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.2K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 9.5K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 874 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
intelligent
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fahim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #108 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 874 | listed | Fahim | 119 |
| AF Afghanistan | #102 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 1 | Fahim | 31 |
| PK Pakistan | #882 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Fahim | 70 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Fahim | 56 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Fahim | 16 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Fahim | 48 |
| US United States | — | 1,202 | 1 in 277K | 1.2K | Fahim | 229 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fahim is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom. arabischen Ursprungs (arab. fahim »jemand, der sehr klug und gebildet ist« zu arab. fahima »verstehen«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
‘Person of profound understanding’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
intelligent; quick of
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Very intelligent,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
learned
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Farouk Al-Fishawyb. 1952EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actor (1952–2019)
- Mohammed Fahimb. 1957AFAfghan politician (1957-2014)
- Fahimb. 1957BDbadminton player
- Norah Fahimb. 1985USlanguage and rhetoric scholar
- Muhammad FahimAUresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-5470-1641)
- Ali FahimIRIranian particle physicist
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 63 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,890 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 35 | #10,890 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Fahim mean, and where does it come from?
- intelligent Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Fahim?
- A machine transcription gives /fɑɪm/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Fahim a male or female name?
- Fahim 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.
- What are other forms of the name Fahim?
- In the etymology graph, Fehim is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Fahim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 186 thousand people named Fahim in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fahim.
- How common is the name Fahim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,202 people named Fahim in 2020, about 1 in 277 thousand residents.
- How common is Fahim compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Fahim is the 108th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fahim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fahimThe 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, “Fahim” — the 108th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.