Wisam
given name · Latin script
Meaning: decoration, medal, badge of honour
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Norway (SSB): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
- Spain (INE): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/visam/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Wisam is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 15K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 21Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)decoration, medal, badge of honour
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wisam 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Wisam | 28 |
| US United States | 1,019 | 1 in 326K | 921 | Wisam | 186 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Wisam | 52 |
| IQ Iraq | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 2 | Wisam | 50 |
| SE Sweden | 703 | 1 in 15K | 703 | Wisam | 25 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Wisam | 55 |
| IL Israel | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Wisam | 29 |
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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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)Wisam 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.
In Swedish, Wisam (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’utmärkelse; medalj’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In got, romanization of 𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌼
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)- Wisam El Abdyb. 1979TNTunisian association football player
- Wisam Nawarb. 1990EGEgyptian handball player
- Ahmed Saeedb. 2008SEnot in their usual nameSwedish association football player (born 2008)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 921 | #12,263 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 703 | #2,169 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 466 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 465 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 454 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 431 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 398 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 362 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 332 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 322 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 297 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 280 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Wisam mean, and where does it come from?
- decoration, medal, badge of honour Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Wisam?
- In Turkish /visam/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Wisam a male or female name?
- Wisam is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Norway (SSB): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes; Spain (INE): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Wisam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Wisam in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wisam.
- How common is the name Wisam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,019 people named Wisam in 2020, about 1 in 326 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wisam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wisamThe 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, “Wisam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.