Given name & surname
Kasem
“filled with joy”
Kasem is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “filled with joy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “filled with joy.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1984. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kasem through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 99
- 99 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,973 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,973 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 287 as a first name in 2020; 491 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kasem’s family of names
In Greek usage, Kasem as a surname is a transliteration of Κάσεμ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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