Waseem
#5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
- Peak · boys
- 1987 · 18 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 794since 1979
Waseem over time
Rank among boys' names. Waseem has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,045 | 19 |
| 2024 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #5,470 | 17 |
| 2022 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #5,776 | 15 |
| 2020 | #3,202 | 35 |
| 2019 | #4,480 | 22 |
| 2018 | #3,373 | 33 |
| 2017 | #3,889 | 27 |
| 2016 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 23 |
| 2014 | #3,617 | 29 |
| 2013 | #4,313 | 22 |
| 2012 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #3,434 | 31 |
| 2010 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | #3,893 | 26 |
| 2006 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #3,974 | 20 |
| 2000 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #3,480 | 22 |
| 1998 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #3,751 | 17 |
| 1993 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1992 | #3,920 | 15 |
| 1991 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #3,607 | 16 |
| 1989 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #2,838 | 18 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #4,403 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Waseem! It came in at #4,403, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Waseem is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#969 · 1 in 8,323
- Texas#2,389 · 1 in 37,043
Best ever in a state: #948 in Michigan, 2000.
Show every state
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| Virginia | #969 | 5 | 1 in 8,323 |
| Texas | #2,389 | 5 | 1 in 37,043 |
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See more about Waseem
- 859 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #5,045)
- 1,843 spots since 2020 (#3,202 → #5,045)
- 750 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #5,045)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1987 at #2,838 (18 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 49,316 boys born in 2020 were named Waseem (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,838 in 1987, was only 1 in 103,721 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.2% of all boys named Waseem (240) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 8 | #4,403 (1979) | #4,403 |
| 1980s | 80 | #2,838 (1987) | #4,879 |
| 1990s | 158 | #3,480 (1999) | #4,086 |
| 2000s | 192 | #3,626 (2003) | #4,515 |
| 2010s | 240 | #3,373 (2018) | #4,514 |
| 2020s | 116 | #3,202 (2020) | #5,212 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Waseem in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 61,217 of them was named Waseem, which outranked 75.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,441Welles32
- #3,441Wellington32
- #3,441Zedekiah32
- #3,524Waseem31
- #3,524Aaren31
- #3,524Aarin31
- #3,524Aiven31
- #3,596Abisai30
- #3,596Advay30
- #3,596Amire30
Tied with 71 names at #3,524; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.