Hashim
surname · Latin script
Meaning: one who smashes or breaks anything to pieces; grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hashim/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hashim 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.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 539(inferred from the name graph)
- SDSudan≈1 in 1.2K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 491as Hashemi
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 Hashim 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 539 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 named Qasim, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hashemi in US United States, AF Afghanistan, 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)
one who smashes or breaks anything to pieces; grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hashim 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)
Hashim 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 Arabic, great-grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Literally ‘crusher’, i.e cne who breaks bread; a byname of the greatgrandfather of the Prophet, who provided food at the Ka‘ba temple. Muslims are sometimes referred to as ‘Hashemites’ because they are regarded as the descendants of Hashim.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Frantumatore
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Destroyer.
as a nameThe African book of names
Generous,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic 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)
- Labiba Hashimb. 1880LBLebanese novelist and journalist, noted for her pioneering role in women's Arabic literature
- Dilara Hashemb. 1936BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi author (1936–2022)
- Michael Hashimb. 1956USAmerican musician
- Roslin Hashimb. 1975MYMalaysian badminton player
- Muhammad Hafiz Hashimb. 1982MYMalaysian badminton player
- Jalil HashimIQIraqi basketball player
- Fahima HashimSDSudanese human rights activist
- Jamshed HashimPKchemist and researcher
- Azirah HashimMYresearcher
- Hashim Hashimresearcher
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 79 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #16,875 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 788 | #28,489 |
Reference works 7
- 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
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Hashim?
- A machine transcription gives /hashim/ (IPA) for Malay.
- What does the name Hashim mean, and where does it come from?
- one who smashes or breaks anything to pieces; grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Hashim 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 Hashim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,287 people named Kassim in 2010, about 1 in 258 thousand residents.
- How common is Hashim compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Hashim is the 49th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hashimThe 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, “Hashim” — the 49th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.