Al Qasim Surname

26,945th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 19,937 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Syria
Highest density in:
Jordan

Al Qasim Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Al Qasim Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Syria7,3101:2,640312
Jordan6,6441:1,331213
Lebanon2,0951:2,691502
Yemen1,4701:17,9761,945
United Arab Emirates1,1051:8,2921,035
Saudi Arabia5171:59,6828,852
Kuwait3281:11,5871,609
Palestine2671:17,0372,896
Iraq891:393,5027,096
Nigeria621:2,857,14190,271
Pakistan301:5,954,79635,971
Tunisia91:67,8478,246
Bahrain41:337,1526,054
Oman21:1,843,9869,590
Australia21:13,497,850222,987
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Al Qasim (547) may also be a first name.

Al Qasim Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Al Qasim Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Al Qasim is most common in Syria. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Al Qasim? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 26,945th most numerous surname globally, held by around 1 in 365,529 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Al Qasim reside; 99 percent reside in West Asia and 82 percent reside in Levant. Al Qasim is also the 360,211th most frequently used first name globally. It is borne by 547 people.

The last name is most numerous in Syria, where it is held by 7,310 people, or 1 in 2,640. In Syria Al Qasim is mostly concentrated in: Homs Governorate, where 68 percent live, Aleppo Governorate, where 32 percent live and Al-Suwayda Governorate, where 0 percent live. Apart from Syria it occurs in 17 countries. It also occurs in Jordan, where 33 percent live and Lebanon, where 11 percent live.

Al Qasim Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is principally Sunni (96%) in Lebanon.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Al Qasim
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