Kassem
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kassem is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic qdsim ‘distributor’, ‘divider’.
- LBLebanon≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 4.6K
- SYSyria≈1 in 6.2K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a personal name based on Arabic qdsim ‘distributor’, ‘divider’. This was the name of a son 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)
Kassem 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #344 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | listed | Kassem | 114 |
| SY Syria | #335 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Kassem | 24 |
| LB Lebanon | #195 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Kassem | 64 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Kassem | 56 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kassem | 13 |
| US United States | — | 1,121 | 1 in 297K | 1.6K | Kassem | 204 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #578 | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Kassem | 72 |
| DK Denmark | — | 418 | 1 in 14K | 418 | — | 2 |
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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dorota Rudnicka-Kassemb. 1953Polish historian
- Suzy Kassemb. 1975USAmerican writer, film director, philosopher, author, social commentator, activist, and poet
- Mohammad Kassemb. 1980researcher
- Rawdah Kassemb. 1983LBLebanese actress
- Karim Kassemb. 1986EGEgyptian actor
- Nadia Kassemb. 1995AUAustralian mixed martial arts fighter
- Mounira Kassemb. 1995DEGerman association football player
- Wafaa Ibrahim KassemGBresearcher
- Tamer KassemEGresearcher
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 55 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,226 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,838 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 678 | #32,094 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 418 | #1,053 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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 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
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
- Where does the name Kassem come from?
- from a personal name based on Arabic qdsim ‘distributor’, ‘divider’. This was the name of a son of the Prophet Muhammad. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Kassem mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic qdsim ‘distributor’, ‘divider’.
- In which country does Kassem have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Kassem in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kassem.
- How common is the name Kassem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,121 people named Kassem in 2010, about 1 in 297 thousand residents.
- How common is Kassem compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Kassem is the 344th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kassemThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kassem” — the 344th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.