Given name
Hasheem
“the destroyer of evil”
Hasheem is a variant of Hashim. One Arabic interpretation is “the destroyer of evil.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hasheem is a variant of Hashim. One Arabic interpretation is “the destroyer of evil.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Hasheem is a variant of Hashim. An origin associated with Hashim is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hasheem through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 70
- 70 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1991.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hasheem’s family of names
Hasheem has a related form in Hashim.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Hasheem
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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