Hatim

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Хатим in RU Russia and ฮาติม in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hatim is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name12K records spelled Hatim4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Morocco, United States

  Also written Ḥātim, Hātim, Ḥâtim

• Spanish given name3.9K records spelled Hatim21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Morocco, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Håťįm, Hatím, Håťïm, Hãtîm, Hâtîm

• Finnish given name219 records spelled Hatim3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Morocco, United States, Sudan

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written HãTim

• Pashto given name177 records spelled Hatim2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Syria, Türkiye, Malaysia

  Also written Ḥātim

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Hatim is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Turkish, 1. Sona erdiren, bitiren. 2. Mühürleyen, mühürleyici. 3. Sonuncu.

  as a word·TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

• In German, männl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft (arab. hätim »entschlossen« zu arab. hatama »entscheiden«).

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• A judge, one

  as a name·Dictionary of Islamic Names

• Puro

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Kurdish, first-person singular preterite of hatin

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 89 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Hatim Zaghloulb. 1957EGinventor
• Hatem Yaseenb. 1986EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian snooker 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 338 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hatim?

We estimate roughly 3.5 thousand people bear Hatim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Hatim have the most bearers?

Hatim is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled hatim.

How common is Hatim compared with other names?

In the Sudan, Hatim is the 36th most common given name of 4,942 given names recorded there.

Is Hatim a male or female name?

Hatim is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Hatim mean?

Recorded meaning: ‘Decisive’, ‘determined’.