Kazem
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kazem is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- IRIran≈1 in 87K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 984K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 9K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kazem 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #988 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Kazem | 9 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Kazem | 57 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 108K | listed | Kazem | 50 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Kazem | 15 |
| US United States | — | 338 | 1 in 984K | 337 | Kazem | 117 |
| SE Sweden | — | 295 | 1 in 35K | 295 | Kazem | 15 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Kazem | 18 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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)
Kazem 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 Czech, instrumental singular of kaz
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Kazim al-Samawib. 1925SEnot in their usual nameIraqi poet
- Kazem Rajavib. 1934IRIranian politician (1934-1990)
- Kazem al-Haerib. 1938IRIranian-Iraqi ayatollah
- Kazem Afrandniab. 1945IRIranian actor
- Kazem Hajir-Azadb. 1950IRIranian actor
- Kazem Seddiqib. 1951IRIranian scholar
- Kadim Al Sahirb. 1957IQnot in their usual nameIraqi singer and composer
- Kazem Gharibabadib. 1974IRIranian diplomat and writer
- Kazim Vasiliauskasb. 1990LTnot in their usual nameLithuanian racing driver
- Kazem BehbehaniKWWHO Envoy
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 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 192 | #100,469 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 154 | #113,791 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 117 | #6,348 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 104 | #146,011 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Kazem a male or female name?
- Kazem is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Kazem?
- In the etymology graph, Kazim is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kazem have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Kazem in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kazem.
- How common is the name Kazem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 338 people named Kazem in 2020, about 1 in 984 thousand residents.
- How common is Kazem compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Kazem is the 988th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kazem?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kazemThe same 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), 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, “Kazem” — the 988th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.