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Haseeb vs Hashim

American parents have registered 1,984 Hashims since 1880, against 512 Haseebs. Hashim is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Haseeb against Hashim, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Haseeb Hashim

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Hashim has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1971 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1998, when Haseeb had 23 and Hashim had 29.

Side by side

  Haseeb Hashim
Total US births 5121,984
Most in one year 2490
Babies in 2025 under 576
Estimated living today 5001,900
Median age today 2114
Peak year 20032016
Best rank 3,626th boys1,724th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,992nd
First recorded 19811971
Girls / boys 0 / 5120 / 1,984

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Haseebs alive today are over 21; half the Hashims are over 14. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Haseeb Hashim
England and Wales 9802,349
France 570
Scotland 956

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Haseeb and Hashim.