Arkeem

Last seen for boys in 2021 at #12,146

Peak · boys
1989 · 27 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
213
since 1983

Arkeem over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Arkeem has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201989peak #2,416, 1989boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
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2021#12,1465
2020#12,0225
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2015#10,6446
2014#12,1085
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1998#7,5607
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1996#4,61313
1995#4,28014
1994#6,9687
1993#3,66117
1992#3,74816
1991#3,32518
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1989#2,41627
1988#7,2705
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First appearance
1983

The first year at least five boys were named Arkeem! It came in at #4,499, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1984–1986, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Arkeem
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1983
  • Peaked 1989 at #2,416 (27 births)
  • Births halved by 1994, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 74,108
  • Highest: 1 in 74,108 boys born in 1989 were named Arkeem (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 349,896 boys born in 2021 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 56.8% of all boys named Arkeem (121) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s53#2,416 (1989)#5,175
1990s121#3,325 (1991)#5,375
2000s5#10,667 (2002)#10,667
2010s24#8,803 (2010)#10,957
2020s10#12,022 (2020)#12,084

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.

Arkeem in 1989

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#2,416
27 births · 1 in 74,108 boys

Top boys' names in 1989

  1. #1Michael65,415
  2. #2Christopher53,186
  3. #3Matthew45,375
  4. #4Joshua44,100
  5. #5David35,225
  6. #6Daniel35,007
  7. #7Andrew34,817
  8. #8Justin32,852
  9. #9James32,720
  10. #10Robert30,072
  11. #2,416Arkeem27
More about 1989

boys

2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 74,108 of them was named Arkeem, which outranked 73.8% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arkeem
  1. #2,359Ward28
  2. #2,359Winfred28
  3. #2,359Zacharie28
  4. #2,416Arkeem27
  5. #2,416Alison27
  6. #2,416Amy27
  7. #2,416Anish27
  8. #2,469Abdiel26
  9. #2,469Adolph26
  10. #2,469Akash26

Tied with 52 names at #2,416; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. 6,314Kiara#7,270#956
  2. 5,870Alexande#6,426#556
  3. 1,111Kwame#1,768#657
  4. 766Kadeem#1,467#701
  5. 684Hakeem#1,270#586
Fallers
  1. 839Long#819#1,658
  2. 337Darell#981#1,318
  3. 294Whitney#890#1,184
  4. 269Trevin#840#1,109
  5. 252Curt#850#1,102

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1989