# Kasim (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kasim/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 817 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 817 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 658, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 17 | 5,320 |
| 2012 | 21 | 4,608 |
| 2013 | 19 | 4,892 |
| 2014 | 22 | 4,465 |
| 2015 | 12 | 6,886 |
| 2016 | 22 | 4,544 |
| 2017 | 21 | 4,671 |
| 2018 | 18 | 5,209 |
| 2019 | 16 | 5,689 |
| 2020 | 18 | 5,143 |
| 2021 | 25 | 4,168 |
| 2022 | 11 | 7,506 |
| 2023 | 17 | 5,573 |
| 2024 | 18 | 5,341 |
| 2025 | 16 | 5,721 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 1,209 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1,756 |
| 2013 | 14 | 1,617 |
| 2014 | 21 | 1,223 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,673 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,335 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,040 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,445 |
| 2019 | 15 | 1,587 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2,125 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,529 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2,088 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,440 |

## People named Kasim

- Kasim Reed, American politician and former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
- Gashim Magomedov, Azerbaijani taekwondoka

## 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.