The Kassim surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,287 people carried this name — #20,591 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 227,300 people counted. That is up 76% from 730 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Kassim surname
An alternative form of Qasim, from Arabic قَاسِم (qāsim).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Kassim» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 71 people named Kassim.
Most of them — 38 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 6 départements, most often Mayotte.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
106 people named Kassim is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Kassim,
with a public archive behind them.
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Rogers Mato 2003– · association football player -
Ghulam Kassim 1800–1844 · chess player
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Namir Kassim 1958– · researcher
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Ismail Kassim 1959–2023 · politician
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Hussein Kassim 1965– · researcher
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Abdullahi Kassim 1980– · engineer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Kassim.
- Kasprzak 1,455 · U.S. census
- Kasprzyk 1,000 · U.S. census
- Kassa 1,669 · U.S. census
- Kassabian 447 · U.S. census
- Kassel 1,278 · U.S. census
- Kassem 1,121 · U.S. census
- Kast 2,048 · U.S. census
- Kastler 455 · U.S. census
- Kastner 4,136 · U.S. census
- Kaszuba 579 · U.S. census
- Katz 31,780 · U.S. census
- Kauffmann 970 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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