Qasim
Qasim was given to 60 boys in 2025, #2,327 among boys’ names; 1,239 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Qasim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Qasim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Qasim mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Qasim is “a male given name.”
Borrowed from Arabic قَاسِم (qāsim).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Qasim?
#2,327 among boys’ names, 2025
Qasim rose from #3,207 in 2015 to #2,327 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 35.1 per million.
60 babies in 2025, the peak
Qasim peaked in 2025, when 60 boys were given it, #2,327 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 56 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,327 | 35.1 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,465 | 32.5 |
| 2023 | 51 | #2,599 | 29.8 |
| 2022 | 53 | #2,581 | 30.4 |
| 2021 | 44 | #2,849 | 25.2 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,186 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 51 | #2,574 | 28.4 |
| 2018 | 54 | #2,437 | 29.7 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,702 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,207 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,207 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,969 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,936 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,777 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,962 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,511 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,456 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,897 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,760 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,188 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,366 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,430 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,093 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,529 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,201 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,200 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,163 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,762 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,319 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,266 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,399 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,037 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,170 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,154 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,409 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,279 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,076 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,025 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,928 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,740 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,593 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,050 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,075 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,887 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,563 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,312 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,182 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,543 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Qasim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Qasim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Qasim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Qasim, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,239 Americans ever recorded as Qasim. The median Qasim alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,382 people named Qasim (6 women and girls, 1,376 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 933 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% 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 | 30 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 175 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 427 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 584 |
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 Qasim born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | #1,529 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,496 | 0.2× |
Where Qasim is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Qasim is most over-represented in New York: since 1977 it was given 2.3 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 Qasim 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,292 babies since 1880, Qasim is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 60 babies (100%), 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 Qasim
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 Qasim and names like it
- Compare Qasim and QasemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sQasim peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Qasim since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Qasim.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Qasim alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with QMost given first.