Waseem

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Waseem is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Urdu, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Arabic: graceful handsom.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 1.5K◐
  • INIndia1 in 6.5K
  • SYSyria1 in 7.5K

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

≈2.9K ●

across 5 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
182 ●

187K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 23K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

WaseemLatin · Hindi●261K records
ওয়াসিমBengali · Bangla●267 records
วาซิมThai · Thai●41 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Wasim in SY Syria, ES Spain, SA Saudi Arabia and 12 more.

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●

Arabic: graceful handsom

Sources 1

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Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Waseem is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#767507,415127K rec.—274Waseem152
PK Pakistan#26126,25312K rec.—4Waseem126
GB United Kingdom—8,2474.1K rec.—3Waseem85
SY Syria#8694,4564.7K rec.—1Wasim29
SA Saudi Arabia#4702,545806 rec.—listedWasim68
US United States—1,58618K rec.1 in 210K1.6KWaseem182
TR Türkiye—1,1191.3K rec.——Wasim17
AU Australia—1,0461.2K rec.—1Waseem74
ZA South Africa—1,0321.2K rec.——Waseem43
BD Bangladesh#7891,0021.8K rec.——Wasim66
CA Canada—9921.2K rec.—2Waseem57
AE United Arab Emirates#3979781.2K rec.——Wasim84

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Languages●

  • Hindi261K48%
  • Urdu197K36%
  • 20K4%
  • English19K3%
  • Arabic19K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi261,29148%
Urdu196,69836%
20,2914%
English19,0503%
Arabic18,9753%

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◐

Waseem is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Romanian given name619 records spelled Waseem2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United Kingdom, Pakistan, United States

    Also written Wãsêèm

49 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●

Waseem 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 English, Arabic: handsome one

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  • In Arabic, Graceful Handsom

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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●

02K4K6K8K1900192019401960198020006.5K · 1993

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Waseem in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2015
Yearrecords
18995
19001
19161
19171
19183
19191
19208
19214
19221
192316
19245
19257
19261
19284
19293
19302
19312
19325
19333
19343
193511
19362
193711
193810
19399
19408
194112
194218
194316
194434
194521
194635
194742
194835
194959
195046
195154
195293
195362
1954131
195596
195686
1957146
1958140
1959231
1960202
1961203
1962344
1963240
1964415
1965303
1966435
1967464
1968513
1969604
1970648
1971635
1972887
1973906
1974919
1975990
19761,537
19771,158
19781,231
19791,387
19801,767
19812,097
19823,520
19833,995
19845,344
19854,909
19864,837
19875,771
19885,920
19896,243
19906,205
19916,478
19926,150
19936,488
19944,926
19954,232
19961,868
19971,881
19981,225
199985
20003
20011
200882
201042
20116
20126
20139
2014371
2015274

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 94 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Waseem Shamma, b. 1970Waseem Ahmad, b. 1970Waseem Khan, b. 1983Waseem Isaacs, b. 1991Waseem Ahmed, b. 1993Waseem Tajbhay, b. 1993Waseem Raza, b. 1993Waseem Williams, b. 1997Waseem Rahman, b. 1998Waseem Zakhary, b. 2000

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 48 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Waseem
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.6K#8,810
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—1.1K#662
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020846#29,704
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010497#43,438
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—304#6,548
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)2015274—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—266#4,271
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—260#3,927
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—252#3,490
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000226#78,549
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—217#15,604
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—217#15,546

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 326 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Waseem?
We estimate roughly 2.9 thousand people bear Waseem (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Waseem have the most bearers?
Waseem is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled waseem.
How common is Waseem compared with other names?
In India, Waseem is the 767th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Waseem a male or female name?
Waseem 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 Waseem mean?
Recorded meaning: Arabic: graceful handsom
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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, “Waseem” — the 767th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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