Kassim

surname · Malay · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kassim is a surname, most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is the 74th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Malay and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: just, fair.

rarermore common
  • KMComoros1 in 42◐
  • TZTanzania1 in 1.2K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 1.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.1K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
186 ●

69K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.7K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

just, fair

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Kassim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia#7445,62922K rec.——Kassim74
KM Comoros#813,32678 rec.——Kassim7
TZ Tanzania#567,3815K rec.—8Kassim47
KE Kenya#6385,9522.3K rec.—listedKassim42
NG Nigeria—4,0186.2K rec.——Kassim45
GB United Kingdom—2,4471.7K rec.——Kassim80
SG Singapore#4871,2881.3K rec.——Kassim50
US United States—1,28713K rec.1 in 258K2KKassim186
EG Egypt—658289 rec.——Kassim41
ID Indonesia—530550 rec.——Kassim23
GH Ghana#505516517 rec.——Kassim29
AU Australia—419644 rec.—1Kassim54

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Malay27K25%
  • Swahili25K23%
  • Arabic17K16%
  • English15K14%
  • French4K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Malay27,37125%
Swahili24,54023%
Arabic17,04916%
English15,28414%
French4,0194%

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◐

Kassim is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3.1K records spelled Kassim4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Spain, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kässim, Kássim

  • Ukrainian surname330 records spelled Kassim8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Malaysia, Tanzania, Russia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Кассім, Кассим

56 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●

Kassim 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 German, männl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft (arab. kasim »schön, anmutig«).

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • just

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

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●

0510152019701980199020002010202018 · 2019

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Kassim in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1970–2025
Yearrecords
19707
19785
19798
198015
198110
19825
19836
19845
19856
19867
19878
19886
19897
19927
19938
19959
19966
19975
19987
199910
20006
200110
20027
20035
200410
200512
200613
20075
200812
200911
20105
201110
201211
20135
20148
201511
201613
20178
20189
201918
20207
202111
20225
202315
202413
20255

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 46 years between 1970–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1800190020002100Ghulam Kassim, b. 1800Ismail Kassim, b. 1959Hussein Kassim, b. 1965Denika Kassim, b. 1997Rogers Mato, b. 2003

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●

Attested in 63 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Kassim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20244.8K#137
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202K#14,322
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.3K#20,591
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000730#30,264
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020657#16,837
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—537#936
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—216#16,804
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025201#425
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—161#6,127
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—145#11,696
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—123#6,210
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007105#18,375

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 181 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kassim?
We estimate roughly 2.1 thousand people bear Kassim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Kassim have the most bearers?
Kassim is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled kassim.
How common is Kassim compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Kassim is the 74th most common surname of 241,605 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Kassim mean?
Recorded meaning: just, fair
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Kassim” — the 74th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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