Kassam

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kassam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Name with variant Kassan; note says Kassanali shows m→n change.

rarermore common
  • SYSyria≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 34K
  • USUnited States1 in 756K

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.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,600 people, est.

Sources
210 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Syria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Name with variant Kassan; note says Kassanali shows m→n change.

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kassam 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.

Where Kassam is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria≈1,600 est.≈1 in 131K—Kassam22
TZ Tanzania≈1,400 est.≈1 in 42K—Kassam24
CA Canada≈1,100 est.≈1 in 34K—Kassam132
SY Syria≈750 est.≈1 in 26K—Kassam10
KE Kenya≈640 est.≈1 in 83K—Kassam27
US United States4401 in 756K529Kassam210
MA Morocco≈310 est.≈1 in 114K—Kassam19

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kassam is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kassām

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000R. Kassam, b. 1942Faazil Kassam, b. 1985Raheem Kassam, b. 1986

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Kassam
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020529#43,886
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010440#48,060
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000362#53,556
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • 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)

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 Kassam mean, and where does it come from?
Name with variant Kassan; note says Kassanali shows m→n change. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
In which country does Kassam have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Kassam in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kassam.
How common is the name Kassam?
In the United States, the national register counted 440 people named Kassam in 2010, about 1 in 756 thousand residents.

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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, “Kassam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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