Qasem
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Qasem is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Jordan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Qasim.
- SYSyria≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 44K
- USUnited States1 in 535K
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.
- Jordan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Qasim.
Sources 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Qasem 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JO Jordan | #372 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Qasem | 76 |
| YE Yemen | #515 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Qasem | 45 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Qasem | 81 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 44K | listed | Qasem | 47 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Qasem | 15 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #605 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Qasem | 70 |
| US United States | — | 622 | 1 in 535K | 1K | Qasem | 167 |
| KW Kuwait | #561 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Qasem | 45 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wajeeh Qassimb. 1938PSnot in their usual namePalestinian politician and diplomat
- Qāsim ʻAbduh Qāsimb. 1942EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian historian (1942-2021)
- Abd as-Sattar Qasmb. 1948PSnot in their usual namePalestinian politician (1948-2021)
- Naim Qassemb. 1953LBnot in their usual nameSecretary-General of Hezbollah
- Najwa Qassemb. 1967LBnot in their usual nameLebanese journalist
- Ahmed Qasemb. 2003SESwedish association football player
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,455 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 622 | #36,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 317 | #59,611 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Qasem mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Qasim. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Qasem?
- In the etymology graph, Qassem is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Qasem have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Qasem in Jordan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled qasem.
- How common is the name Qasem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 622 people named Qasem in 2010, about 1 in 535 thousand residents.
- How common is Qasem compared with other names?
- In Jordan, Qasem is the 372nd most common surname of 26,255 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/qasemThe 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, “Qasem” — the 372nd most common surname in Jordan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.