Hashemi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Arabic surname indicating descent from Hashim, greatgrandfather of the Prophet Muhammad
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/həˈʃeɪmi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hashemi 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.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 491(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 539as Hashim
- SDSudan≈1 in 1.2Kas 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 Hashemi 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 491 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 named Qasim, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hashim in MY Malaysia, SD Sudan, Hashem in EG Egypt, SY Syria 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)
Arabic surname indicating descent from Hashim, greatgrandfather of the Prophet Muhammad.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hashemi 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 |
| SE Sweden | — | 760 | 1 in 13K | 886 | Hashemi | 34 |
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); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hashemi 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, pers. name (H. Rafsanjani)
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)
- Ahmad Hashemib. 1939IRIranian film director
- Mehdi Hashemib. 1944IRIranian politician
- Mehdi Hashemib. 1946IRIranian actor
- Mardhiah Hashemib. 1959USUnited States journalist
- Hassan Hashemib. 1959IRIranian combat engineer
- Javad Hashemib. 1966IRIranian film director and actor
- Afshin Hashemib. 1975IRIranian actor
- Hedayat Hashemib. 1975IRIranian actor
- MC Basstardb. 1982DEnot in their usual nameIranian-born German rapper
- Ali Hashemib. 1991IRIranian weightlifter
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 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 760 | #1,303 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Hashemi mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic surname indicating descent from Hashim, greatgrandfather of the Prophet Muhammad. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hashemi?
- A machine transcription gives /həˈʃeɪmi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hashemi 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 Hashemi?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 760 people named Hashemi, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Hashemi compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Hashemi is the 49th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hashemiThe 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, “Hashemi” — the 49th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.