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Hashim name meaning

“crusher, breaker”

Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
H
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1940s: 5.5%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s5.5%
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
75

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Hashim

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: HArabic origin

Hashim is a boy's name from Arabic meaning 'crusher, breaker'.

What does Hashim mean?

Crusher, breaker

In Malay: pemecah, penghancur

Sources (1)

About the name Hashim

Hashim comes from the Arabic root hashama, 'to crush or break'. It began as a nickname of a great-grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad, said to have earned it by crumbling bread for pilgrims. Common Malaysian spellings include Hasim, Hassim and Hasyim. JPN data shows its peak in the 1940s with 1,112 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic
SyllablesHa-shim
First letterMalay Names starting with H
Arabic scriptهاشم

Hashim in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 1,112 · 5.5%
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Hashim as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Hashim

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Hashim · behindthename.com · meaning

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