Qasim
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Qasim 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. In English, recorded as Qasim, the eldest son of the prophet Muhammad.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 491as Hashemi
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 539as Hashim
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 Qasim 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 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hashim in MY Malaysia, SD Sudan, Hashemi in US United States, AF Afghanistan and Hashem in EG Egypt, SY Syria.
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 divides or distributes (money or food)’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Qasim is read(measured from records)
Qasim is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Urdu62%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Qasim in Urdu.
- Arabic7.2%
distributor, divider. Al-Qaasim
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
distributor, divider
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Hindi6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Qasim in Hindi.
- English5.4%
Qasim, the eldest son of the prophet Muhammad.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Qasim 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)
Qasim is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
‘One who divides or distributes (money or food)’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
one who distributes;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- Mahinur Qasimb. 1929CNChinese politician
- Hamza Qasimb. 1933IQassociation football player
- Iqbal Qasimb. 1953PKPakistani cricketer
- Waseem Qasimb. 1969GBBritish medical researcher
- Abbas Qasimb. 1991IQIraqi association football player
- Ali Qasimb. 1994IQIraqi association football player (b. 1994)
- Shimaa Qasimb. 1996IQmodel
- Mubashir QasimNZeconomist and data scientist in New Zealand
- Muhammad QasimPKPakistani entomologist
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 58 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 504 | #42,937 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 208 | #83,965 |
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
- Where does the name Qasim come from?
- ‘One who divides or distributes (money or food)’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Qasim mean?
- In English, Qasim, the eldest son of the prophet Muhammad.
- In which country does Qasim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 144 thousand people named Qasim in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled qasim.
- How common is the name Qasim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,287 people named Kassim in 2010, about 1 in 258 thousand residents.
- How common is Qasim compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Qasim is the 49th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Qasim?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/qasimThe 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, “Qasim” — the 49th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.