Waseem
Masculine · “handsome”
Waseem is handsome in Arabic, and the root is about marking: a wasm is a mark or a brand, and a wasim is someone marked out, which came to mean marked out by beauty. It is given across the Arabic-speaking world and in Pakistan and India.
How old is the name Waseem?
Waseem first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Waseem alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 800 people named Waseem are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Waseem most popular?
Waseem peaked in 1987, reaching #2838 nationally. Today it ranks #5045, 2,207 places below that high. See the whole 1987 chart.
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Where it comes from
From wasim to Waseem
The story of Waseem
Arabic names about appearance are common and unembarrassed, and this one has been in use since the classical period. It traveled with Arabic into Urdu and Punjabi, where it is very widely given, and into Turkish as Vasim. Transliteration into English gives Wasim, Waseem and Wassim, all writing the same word; the double e in this spelling fixes the long vowel for English readers, which is what it is there for.
Meaning
handsome; graceful
Arabic wasim, from wasama, to mark or to brand. The sense of being marked out shifted early to being distinguished by good looks, and the name carries the later meaning.
How the name formed
- wasim
- Waseem
Related forms: وسيم · Wasim · Vasim
Pronouncing Waseem
wah-SEEM
Two syllables with the stress at the end, the second held long. The double e is there to make sure of that vowel.
Nicknames for Waseem
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1979
- Most boys named
- 202035 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2838reached in 1987
- Change vs 2024
- +26.7%19 in 2025, from 15
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Waseem in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- وسيم in Arabic — transliteration
- Wasim in Urdu — spelling variant
- Vasim in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Virginia, Texas.
Waseems among us
people named Waseem are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 89,899 born in 2025 was named Waseem
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Alfard test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Waseem's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alfard climbed just as high around 1928, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alfard's path sketches the road Waseem is walking now.
Waseem sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Waseem beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Waseem in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a single word, documented and easy to state.
- It is used across the Arab world and South Asia alike.
- Both syllables exist in English, so the name survives transliteration intact.
- Wasim, Waseem and Wassim are all standard, so records within a family may differ.
- English speakers may stress the first syllable, which changes the rhythm.
- A name meaning handsome is a claim about the child, which some children mind.
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Frequently asked
- How many Waseems are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Waseem are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Waseem in 2025?
- Waseem ranks #5045 among US boy names in 2025, with 19 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Waseem?
- About 1 in every 89,899 US boys born in 2025 was named Waseem — 19 in all.
- Will my child share the name Waseem with classmates?
- Waseem will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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