Wissam
An Arabic name meaning "medal", a badge of honor. Barely 22 people in Poland carry it, most of them men, so most Poles have never met a Wissam.
Wissam Pronunciation
What Wissam means
Where Wissam comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Wissam comes from Arabic. It grows from the root wasama, meaning to mark or to brand a surface. From that same root came the noun wisam, a medal, the decoration a country pins on someone who has earned it. Polish keeps the sense plain: medal, odznaczenie. The name and the object are one word.
Wissam has no diminutive and no separate feminine form. The name stands alone. In Arabic the same word names official honors, so a state Order of Merit is called a wisam. A person named Wissam shares a noun with the highest decorations of a nation.
Picture a class register read aloud in a Polish school, the teacher reaching Wissam near the end. The word on the page also means a badge of honor. The origin sits in the root wasama, to mark. The meaning that stayed is medal.
How many people are named Wissam
1 in 1185899 men in Poland is named Wissam. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9486 among male names.
Wissam as a middle name
Wissam is a first name for 22 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5877th, between Willis (4) and Witomierz (4).
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#5875 Willie4
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#5876 Willis4
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#5877 Wissam4
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#5878 Witomierz4
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#5879 Włodek4