Given name & surname
Qasim
“one who is charitable; generous”
Qasim is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is charitable; generous.”
Original Arabicقاسم
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who is charitable; generous.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Qasim through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,239
- 1,239 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 60 babies
- 2025
- 60
- #2,327 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +18%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 60 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,327 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 18.4% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (7). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,382 as a first name in 2020; 1,175 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.
Qasim’s family of names
Qasim has a related form in Kasim. Qasim has a related form in Quasim. In Kurdish usage, Qasim has a conventional equivalent in the Turkish form Kasım.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Qasim has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
Arabicwhere Qasim comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Kasimvariant
- Kassimvariant · English
- Qassimlikely variant
- Qasemvariant · English
- Quaseemvariant
- Quasimvariant
- Qâsimvariant · French
- Quasymvariant
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Spellings & scripts 4
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.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Qasim
- Qasem SoleimaniIranian military officer (1957–2020)
- Qasim AminEgyptian writer, judge and social reformer (1863–1908)
- Qasim al-RaymiYemeni al-Qaeda member1978–2020
- Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakrgrandson of Caliph Abu Bakr and transmitter of hadith657–725
- Qasim RazviPakistani militia leader (1902–1970)
- Qasim ZiaPakistani field hockey playerborn 1961
- al-Qāsim ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn QuṭlūbughāMuslim scholar of the Mamluk era1399–1474
- Kassem GAmerican comedian and YouTuber of Jordanian Arab descentborn 1983
- Kasım PashaOttoman military commander1350
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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