Fâhim
surname · Latin script
Fâhim is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic فَاهِم (fāhim, “understanding, perceptive”); this surname is predominantly found in Bangladesh, transliterated from Bengali ফাহিম (fahim). Fâhim is also written ফাহিম in Bengali.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.5K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 15Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Fâhim in other scripts: Bengali
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fahim in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 4 more.
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)- Arabicفَاهِمfāhim“understanding, perceptive”(measured from records)
- Bengaliফাহিমfahim(measured from records)
Borrowed from Arabic فَاهِم (fāhim, “understanding, perceptive”); this surname is predominantly found in Bangladesh, transliterated from Bengali ফাহিম (fahim).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- African Muslim Names
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fâhim 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 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Fahim | 119 |
| IN India | — | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 69 | Fahim | 98 |
| AF Afghanistan | #102 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 1 | Fahim | 31 |
| PK Pakistan | #882 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Fahim | 70 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Fahim | 16 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Fahim | 59 |
| 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fâhim mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic فَاهِم (fāhim, “understanding, perceptive”); this surname is predominantly found in Bangladesh, transliterated from Bengali ফাহিম (fahim). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and African Muslim Names and 5 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Fâhim?
- Mondonomo estimates about 131 thousand people named Fâhim in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fahim. After it come India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Algeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Fâhim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,202 people named Fâhim in 2020, about 1 in 277 thousand residents.
- How common is Fâhim compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Fâhim is the 108th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/f%C3%A2himThe 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, “Fâhim” — the 108th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.