Rasim
From the Arabic root rasama, to draw or mark out a plan: Rasim is the one who sets the lines before the building rises. Fewer than 250 men in Poland carry it, and most Poles have never met one, so it stays short and whole with no local nicknames.
Rasim Pronunciation
Rasim is pronounced RAH-sheem (/ˈraɕim/).
What Rasim means
Where Rasim comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rasim comes from the Arabic root rasama, to draw or to mark out a plan. From that root the name took its meaning: a planner, a designer, one who sets down the lines before the building rises. In Polish the sense arrives as planista, projektant.
The name spread with the reach of Arabic across the Ottoman world, and it settled comfortably in Turkish, where Rasim has long been a common given name for men. Ahmed Rasim, the Istanbul writer and journalist active around the turn of the twentieth century, carried it into Turkish literary memory. In Arabic and Turkish alike, the idea of measured design stays close to the name.
In Poland the name is rare. A child called Rasim on a school class register stands slightly apart, his name read with care at the first roll call. It picked up no Polish diminutives, so it stays short and whole. Rasim is the one who draws the plan: planista, projektant.
How many people are named Rasim
1 in 87127 men in Poland is named Rasim. 245 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1977 among male names.
Rasim as a middle name
Rasim is a first name for 245 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 98/2 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4971st, between Rasel (5) and Rasmus (5).
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#4969 Ranjit5
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#4970 Rasel5
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#4971 Rasim5
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#4972 Rasmus5
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#4973 Rauf5