Akeem
#2,077 for boys in 2025, 71 births
- Peak · boys
- 1990 · 570 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,825since 1972
Akeem over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Akeem has never cracked the top 400 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,077 | 71 |
| 2024 | #1,472 | 123 |
| 2023 | #1,547 | 113 |
| 2022 | #1,468 | 123 |
| 2021 | #1,307 | 143 |
| 2020 | #1,262 | 145 |
| 2019 | #1,312 | 139 |
| 2018 | #1,255 | 147 |
| 2017 | #1,191 | 156 |
| 2016 | #1,313 | 137 |
| 2015 | #1,453 | 116 |
| 2014 | #1,670 | 92 |
| 2013 | #1,578 | 98 |
| 2012 | #1,523 | 105 |
| 2011 | #1,795 | 80 |
| 2010 | #1,713 | 89 |
| 2009 | #1,638 | 96 |
| 2008 | #1,708 | 89 |
| 2007 | #1,995 | 70 |
| 2006 | #1,669 | 85 |
| 2005 | #2,182 | 55 |
| 2004 | #1,857 | 66 |
| 2003 | #2,031 | 56 |
| 2002 | #1,772 | 65 |
| 2001 | #1,777 | 63 |
| 2000 | #1,552 | 77 |
| 1999 | #1,710 | 61 |
| 1998 | #1,246 | 97 |
| 1997 | #1,089 | 116 |
| 1996 | #902 | 146 |
| 1995 | #809 | 174 |
| 1994 | #698 | 222 |
| 1993 | #660 | 242 |
| 1992 | #563 | 325 |
| 1991 | #482 | 419 |
| 1990 | #405 | 570 |
| 1989 | #440 | 459 |
| 1988 | #640 | 221 |
| 1987 | #680 | 178 |
| 1986 | #526 | 283 |
| 1985 | #698 | 159 |
| 1984 | #542 | 255 |
| 1983 | #617 | 192 |
| 1982 | #1,774 | 32 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #2,910 | 14 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
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First appearance
1972
The first year at least five boys were named Akeem! It came in at #4,441, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1975, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 605 spots since 2024 (#1,472 → #2,077)
- 815 spots since 2020 (#1,262 → #2,077)
- 624 spots since 2015 (#1,453 → #2,077)
- Biggest jump: 1,157 spots in 1983 (#1,774 → #617)
- Biggest drop: 187 spots in 1997 (#902 → #1,089)
Rise & fade · boys
18 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1990 at #405 (570 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 14 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 1983–1996
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,604
- Highest: 1 in 3,604 boys born in 1990 were named Akeem (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,057 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 34.8% of all boys named Akeem (2,372) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 58 | #2,910 (1977) | #4,550 |
| 1980s | 1,796 | #440 (1989) | #1,456 |
| 1990s | 2,372 | #405 (1990) | #856 |
| 2000s | 722 | #1,552 (2000) | #1,818 |
| 2010s | 1,159 | #1,191 (2017) | #1,480 |
| 2020s | 718 | #1,262 (2020) | #1,522 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Akeem in 1993
boys
#660
242 births · 1 in 8,105 boys
Top boys' names in 1993
More about 1993
boys
1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 8,105 of them was named Akeem, which outranked 93.5% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).