Wasim

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Wasim 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 English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: handsome, beautiful, graceful.

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

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Waseem in IN India, PK Pakistan, US United States and 10 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●

handsome, beautiful, graceful

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Wasim 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

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

Languages●

  • Hindi99K44%
  • English31K14%
  • Indonesian22K10%
  • Urdu16K7%
  • Arabic12K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi99,03244%
English30,75714%
Indonesian21,75710%
Urdu15,7127%
Arabic11,9085%

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◐

Wasim is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name41K records spelled Wasim15 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Wāsim, Wäsïm, Wąşim, Wåšìm, Wâsïm

  • a separate given name17K records spelled Wasim2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Wasīm

  • French given name3.0K records spelled Wasim10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, India, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Wasîm, Wàśim, Wåšïm, Wäşïm, Wäsïm

  • Pashto given name2.2K records spelled Wasim2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Afghanistan, Pakistan

    Also written Wasīm

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name929 records spelled Wasim7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Wâsím, Wãsím

  • Finnish given name277 records spelled Wasim3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, India, United Kingdom, Algeria

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Wåsim

  • Russian given name265 records spelled Wasim24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, India, Ukraine, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Ukrainian

    Also written Васим, Vasim, Васім, Вашим, Васимь

43 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●

Wasim is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, handsome

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • ‘Handsome’, ‘good-looking’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • beautiful; handsome;

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

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●

01002003001940196019802000261 · 1993

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Wasim in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1921–2015
Yearrecords
19211
19222
19233
19241
19251
19281
19291
19301
19321
19391
19402
19411
19421
19431
19443
19452
19461
19471
19482
19491
19503
19511
19523
19531
19545
19556
19566
19575
19585
19594
19604
19611
19627
19634
19646
196511
19667
19679
196815
196910
197017
197124
197220
197319
197421
197528
197627
197714
197836
197948
198058
198154
1982115
1983116
1984159
1985163
1986146
1987207
1988179
1989200
1990209
1991241
1992258
1993261
1994230
1995190
1996132
1997105
199863
19994
200810
20102
20121
20131
201428
201515

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 76 years between 1921–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Wasim Barelvi, b. 1940Wasim Sajjad, b. 1941Wasim Bari, b. 1948Wasim Raja, b. 1952Wasim Akram, b. 1966Wasim Feroz, b. 1966Wasim Haider, b. 1967Wasim Khan, b. 1971Wasim Jaffer, b. 1978Wasim Feroze, b. 1986

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 58 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Wasim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—1.2K#2,965
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—1.1K#711
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020748#15,284
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—698#3,664
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—600#1,851
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—445#3,010
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020394#56,084
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—354#3,167
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020304—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010214#86,981
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000112#137,816
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—110#4,158

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 257 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

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

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