Meaning not yet researched.
Qasim: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,327 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Qasim in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,327 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Qasim: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,327 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 60 (2025).
In 2025, 60 US boys were named Qasim, making it the 2,327th most common boys’ name of the year, up 138 places from #2,465 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 56 boys named Qasim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,327, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 60. For comparison, it was #3,208 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Qasim in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 11 babies. In all, 1,239 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 373 babies named Qasim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 487 US boys were named Qasim; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,468 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Qasim ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,529 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kasim, Kassim and Kazim are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kasim (817), Kassim (392), Kazim (167), Kasem (99), Qasem (53), Qaasim (27), Kasiem (23), Qassam (7), Qassim (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Qasim in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | #1,529 | #1,586 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,496 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 60 | #2,327 |
| 2024 | — | — | 56 | #2,465 |
| 2023 | — | — | 51 | #2,600 |
| 2022 | — | — | 53 | #2,582 |
| 2021 | — | — | 44 | #2,850 |
| 2020 | — | — | 36 | #3,188 |
| 2019 | — | — | 51 | #2,575 |
| 2018 | — | — | 54 | #2,438 |
| 2017 | — | — | 46 | #2,703 |
| 2016 | — | — | 36 | #3,208 |
| 2015 | — | — | 36 | #3,208 |
| 2014 | — | — | 39 | #2,971 |
| 2013 | — | — | 26 | #3,938 |
| 2012 | — | — | 28 | #3,780 |
| 2011 | — | — | 26 | #3,964 |
| 2010 | — | — | 31 | #3,512 |
| 2009 | — | — | 32 | #3,458 |
| 2008 | — | — | 27 | #3,900 |
| 2007 | — | — | 20 | #4,762 |
| 2006 | — | — | 23 | #4,192 |
| 2005 | — | — | 30 | #3,370 |
| 2004 | — | — | 28 | #3,434 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,097 |
| 2002 | — | — | 25 | #3,534 |
| 2001 | — | — | 28 | #3,206 |
| 2000 | — | — | 27 | #3,206 |
| 1999 | — | — | 26 | #3,167 |
| 1998 | — | — | 30 | #2,765 |
| 1997 | — | — | 22 | #3,324 |
| 1996 | — | — | 22 | #3,272 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,405 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #4,043 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,176 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #5,161 |
| 1991 | — | — | 13 | #4,416 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,286 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #6,083 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #7,032 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,935 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,744 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,598 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,054 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,077 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,889 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,565 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,314 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,183 |
| 1977 | — | — | 11 | #3,545 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).