Qasim
Fewer than two dozen men in Poland carry Qasim, and no boys got it last year: most Poles will never meet one. The name comes from Arabic, meaning "one who divides" or "distributes".
Qasim Pronunciation
What Qasim means
Where Qasim comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Qasim comes from the Arabic verb qasama, to divide and apportion. The meaning sits on the surface: one who divides, a distributor, in Polish rozdzielający. A qasim hands out shares, of food, of spoils, of inheritance. He measures what belongs to each.
The name stands close to the Prophet Muhammad, who was known by the kunya Abu al-Qasim, father of Qasim. His son Qasim died in infancy. From that bond the name spread across Arabic-speaking lands and held.
The Egyptian reformer Qasim Amin (1863 to 1908) carried it into a modern argument. He pressed for the education of women in his book Tahrir al-Mar'a, The Liberation of Women. In a Polish class register the name now sits without diminutive and without variant, spelled plainly Qasim.
How many people are named Qasim
1 in 970281 men in Poland is named Qasim. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9416 among male names.
Qasim as a middle name
Qasim is a first name for 22 men in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 54/46 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2085th, between Pinhas (19) and Rajeshkumar (19).
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#2083 Petro19
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#2084 Pinhas19
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#2085 Qasim19
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#2086 Rajeshkumar19
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#2087 Raza19