In 2025, 19 US boys were named Waseem, making it the 5,194th most common boys’ name of the year, up 977 places from #6,171 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 15 boys named Waseem in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,938, reached in 1987. The most boys given the name in a single year was 35, in 2020. For comparison, it was #4,397 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Waseem in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 8 babies. In all, 794 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 240 babies named Waseem.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 229 US boys were named Waseem; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.