- Meaning
- Protector, one who guards
- Arabic
- عاصم
- Say it
- AA-sim
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Arabic
- In the Quran
- Not in the Quran
Famous people with this name
- Asim ibn Abi al-Najud, whose reading of the Quran, through Hafs, is the most widespread today
Other spellings
Assem, Asem, Asım
Names from the same root (ع ص م)
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Questions about Asim
What does Asim mean?
Asim means: Protector, one who guards.
Is Asim in the Quran?
No. But a name does not need to be in the Quran to be a good Muslim name: what matters is that its meaning is good.
Is Asim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Asim is a boy’s name.
How do you write Asim in Arabic?
In Arabic script, Asim is written عاصم.