Hashim
Hashim was given to 76 boys in 2025, #1,998 among boys’ names; 1,984 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,940 Americans named Hashim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hashim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hashim mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hashim is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “Hashim” (هَاشِم).
From Arabic هَاشِم (hāšim, “Hashim”). The name signifies “breaker of bread”, from هَشَمَ (hašama, “to destroy, smash”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hashim?
#1,998 among boys’ names, 2025
Hashim rose from #2,094 in 2015 to #1,998 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 35.0 to 44.5 per million.
90 babies in 2016, the peak
Hashim peaked in 2016, when 90 boys were given it, #1,729 among boys’ names. The 76 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #1,998 | 44.5 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,216 | 37.7 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,280 | 36.2 |
| 2022 | 43 | #2,930 | 24.6 |
| 2021 | 48 | #2,667 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,055 | 40.0 |
| 2019 | 80 | #1,875 | 44.6 |
| 2018 | 77 | #1,926 | 42.4 |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,040 | 37.3 |
| 2016 | 90 | #1,729 | 47.4 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,094 | 35.0 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,069 | 35.4 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,120 | 33.3 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,054 | 35.3 |
| 2011 | 43 | #2,767 | 22.6 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,699 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 49 | #2,572 | 24.7 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,971 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 33 | #3,328 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 45 | #2,634 | 21.9 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,556 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,177 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 32 | #3,011 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 43 | #2,386 | 22.1 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,638 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,937 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,961 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,811 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,501 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,958 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,869 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,259 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,288 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 30 | #2,421 | 15.0 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,249 | 9.4 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,503 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,633 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,412 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,253 | 8.0 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,516 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,895 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,027 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,490 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,542 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,441 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,475 | 11.2 |
| 1979 | 25 | #2,068 | 14.5 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,411 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,274 | 29.8 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,352 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 26 | #1,852 | 16.7 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,014 | 14.0 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,259 | 11.5 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,275 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,611 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hashim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hashim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hashim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hashim, and how old are they?
1,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,984 Americans ever recorded as Hashim. The median Hashim alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,941 people named Hashim (8 women and girls, 1,933 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,604 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 193 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 282 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 589 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 871 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Hashim born?
The states with the most babies named Hashim are New York, California and Texas, with 60% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 9 | #1,240 | 1.6× |
| California | 9 | #1,735 | 0.3× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,383 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,160 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,171 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,148 | 0.4× |
Where Hashim is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hashim is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hashim with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,662 babies since 1880, Hashim is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 76 of their 108 babies (70%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hashim
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hashim and names like it
- Compare Hashim and HashemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHashim peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hashim since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Hashim: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Hashim.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hashim alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.