Kassem
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KAH-sem
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #6,442 for boys
Kassem is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “one who distributes”. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
What does Kassem mean?
Arabic: spelling of Qasim
“one who distributes”
Qasim was the name of the Prophet Muhammad's first son, who died in infancy.
Is Kassem a girl's or a boy's name?
Kassem is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kassem in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,442nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 130,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Kassem, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. It first appears in the records in 1981.
2025 had the most boys named Kassem of any year since it first appeared, in 1981.
Half of all the boys named Kassem in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kassem in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,770 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,486 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,758 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,633 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,048 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,529 |
| 2000 | 11 | #5,913 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,311 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,837 |
| 1997 | 12 | #4,954 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,129 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,797 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,809 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,864 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,511 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,108 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,420 |
| 1987 | 5 | #6,945 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 7 | #4,959 |
Names like Kassem
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hamza, Zahir, Muhammad, Amir, Ahmad, Khalil, Khalid, Zayd, Nasir, Abdullah, Salem, Samir
Names related to Kassem
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo, Safa
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kassem: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kassem, updated 20 October 2026.