Hashem
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A substitute for the Tetragrammaton
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhæʃɪm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hashem is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common surname.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 491as Hashemi
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 539as Hashim
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hashem itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 named Qasim, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hashim in MY Malaysia, SD Sudan, Hashemi in US United States, AF Afghanistan and Qasim in PK Pakistan.
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)
A substitute for the Tetragrammaton.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hashem 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #49 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Qasim | 135 |
| AF Afghanistan | #50 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 491 | 1 | Hashemi | 20 |
| MY Malaysia | #10 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 539 | 1.1K | Hashim | 133 |
| SD Sudan | #22 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Hashim | 45 |
| EG Egypt | #110 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | listed | Hashem | 124 |
| SY Syria | #422 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Hashem | 31 |
| US United States | — | 1,287as Kassim | 1 in 258K | 2K | Hashemi | 243 |
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: data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)
Hashem is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper 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)
- Adel Hashemb. 1939EGEgyptian actor
- Ahmed Omar Hashemb. 1941EGEgyptian politician
- Anwar Hashemb. 1949Sudanese director
- Aql Hashemb. 1952LBLebanese military officer
- Ali Hashemb. 1980LBArab Journalist
- Heba Hashemb. 1984EGEgyptian journalist and actress
- John Hashemb. 1987CACanadian football player
- Jad Hashemb. 1988Lebanese national rugby league player
- Nadia Hashemb. 2000JOJordanian journalist and politician
- Prince Hashem bin Abdullah of Jordanb. 2005JOJordanian Royal
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,404 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 913 | #25,448 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Hashem mean, and where does it come from?
- A substitute for the Tetragrammaton. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hashem?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæʃɪm/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Hashem have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 144 thousand people named Qasim in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hashem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,287 people named Kassim in 2010, about 1 in 258 thousand residents.
- How common is Hashem compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Hashem is the 49th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hashem?
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/hashemThe 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, “Hashem” — the 49th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.