# Hashim (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hashim/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | “hashim”, “breaker of bread”, “to destroy”, “smash” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,984 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,984 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,349, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic هَاشِم (hāšim, “Hashim”). The name signifies “breaker of bread”, from هَشَمَ (hašama, “to destroy, smash”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 43 | 2,768 |
| 2012 | 67 | 2,055 |
| 2013 | 63 | 2,121 |
| 2014 | 68 | 2,070 |
| 2015 | 67 | 2,094 |
| 2016 | 90 | 1,729 |
| 2017 | 69 | 2,040 |
| 2018 | 77 | 1,927 |
| 2019 | 80 | 1,875 |
| 2020 | 69 | 2,055 |
| 2021 | 48 | 2,668 |
| 2022 | 43 | 2,932 |
| 2023 | 62 | 2,281 |
| 2024 | 65 | 2,216 |
| 2025 | 76 | 1,998 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 85 | 444 |
| 2012 | 92 | 429 |
| 2013 | 120 | 345 |
| 2014 | 103 | 395 |
| 2015 | 96 | 429 |
| 2016 | 97 | 432 |
| 2017 | 108 | 403 |
| 2018 | 95 | 436 |
| 2019 | 100 | 418 |
| 2020 | 71 | 529 |
| 2021 | 76 | 514 |
| 2022 | 85 | 469 |
| 2023 | 66 | 567 |
| 2024 | 87 | 461 |
| 2025 | 69 | 563 |

## People named Hashim

- Hashim bey Vazirov, Azerbaijani journalist, writer and playwright

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.