Hakeem
#1,499 for boys in 2025, 117 births
- Peak · boys
- 1989 · 279 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,299since 1971
Hakeem over time
Rank among boys' names. Hakeem has never cracked the top 500 here.
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 | #1,499 | 117 |
| 2024 | #1,262 | 156 |
| 2023 | #1,163 | 178 |
| 2022 | #1,121 | 189 |
| 2021 | #1,156 | 173 |
| 2020 | #959 | 227 |
| 2019 | #1,066 | 191 |
| 2018 | #1,059 | 191 |
| 2017 | #1,020 | 198 |
| 2016 | #909 | 237 |
| 2015 | #1,162 | 160 |
| 2014 | #1,979 | 72 |
| 2013 | #1,670 | 90 |
| 2012 | #1,882 | 77 |
| 2011 | #1,968 | 70 |
| 2010 | #1,881 | 76 |
| 2009 | #1,925 | 74 |
| 2008 | #1,916 | 75 |
| 2007 | #1,928 | 73 |
| 2006 | #1,840 | 74 |
| 2005 | #1,742 | 76 |
| 2004 | #1,629 | 79 |
| 2003 | #1,497 | 86 |
| 2002 | #1,505 | 83 |
| 2001 | #1,185 | 115 |
| 2000 | #1,075 | 132 |
| 1999 | #1,032 | 134 |
| 1998 | #787 | 194 |
| 1997 | #703 | 226 |
| 1996 | #678 | 241 |
| 1995 | #668 | 247 |
| 1994 | #637 | 265 |
| 1993 | #821 | 166 |
| 1992 | #728 | 201 |
| 1991 | #652 | 243 |
| 1990 | #612 | 270 |
| 1989 | #586 | 279 |
| 1988 | #1,270 | 65 |
| 1987 | #1,337 | 55 |
| 1986 | #2,007 | 29 |
| 1985 | #1,698 | 36 |
| 1984 | #1,320 | 50 |
| 1983 | #1,651 | 35 |
| 1982 | #2,269 | 22 |
| 1981 | #1,811 | 31 |
| 1980 | #1,765 | 32 |
| 1979 | #1,435 | 42 |
| 1978 | #1,688 | 32 |
| 1977 | #1,645 | 33 |
| 1976 | #1,711 | 30 |
| 1975 | #1,884 | 25 |
| 1974 | #2,459 | 16 |
| 1973 | #2,716 | 13 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #3,370 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Hakeem! It came in at #3,370, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1973, when fewer than 14 boys a year got the name.
Where Hakeem is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#801 · 1 in 5,253
- Virginia#1,089 · 1 in 7,451
- New York#1,119 · 1 in 8,442
- North Carolina#1,277 · 1 in 10,294
- Texas#1,294 · 1 in 11,670
Best ever in a state: #139 in Delaware, 1989.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #801 | 10 | 1 in 5,253 |
| Virginia | #1,089 | 5 | 1 in 7,451 |
| New York | #1,119 | 10 | 1 in 8,442 |
| North Carolina | #1,277 | 5 | 1 in 10,294 |
| Texas | #1,294 | 15 | 1 in 11,670 |
| Georgia | #1,350 | 5 | 1 in 10,044 |
| California | #1,438 | 12 | 1 in 14,623 |
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See more about Hakeem
- 237 spots since 2024 (#1,262 → #1,499)
- 540 spots since 2020 (#959 → #1,499)
- 337 spots since 2015 (#1,162 → #1,499)
- Biggest jump: 684 spots in 1989 (#1,270 → #586)
- Biggest drop: 245 spots in 1999 (#787 → #1,032)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1989 at #586 (279 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1989–1998
- Highest: 1 in 7,172 boys born in 1989 were named Hakeem (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,599 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 34.7% of all boys named Hakeem (2,187) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 209 | #1,435 (1979) | #2,250 |
| 1980s | 634 | #586 (1989) | #1,571 |
| 1990s | 2,187 | #612 (1990) | #732 |
| 2000s | 867 | #1,075 (2000) | #1,624 |
| 2010s | 1,362 | #909 (2016) | #1,460 |
| 2020s | 1,040 | #959 (2020) | #1,193 |
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.
Hakeem in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 14,599 of them was named Hakeem, which outranked 89.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,492Jermaine118
- #1,492Kyair118
- #1,492Nickolas118
- #1,499Hakeem117
- #1,499Carver117
- #1,499Clarence117
- #1,499Decker117
- #1,509Brent116
- #1,509Freddie116
- #1,509Masai116
Tied with 9 names at #1,499; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.