Kadeem
#4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
- Peak · boys
- 1991 · 391 births
- Debut · boys
- 52 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,644since 1988
Kadeem over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Kadeem 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.
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| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,249 | 24 |
| 2024 | #4,433 | 23 |
| 2023 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 2021 | #4,780 | 20 |
| 2020 | #3,497 | 31 |
| 2019 | #4,230 | 24 |
| 2018 | #4,094 | 25 |
| 2017 | #2,891 | 41 |
| 2016 | #3,596 | 30 |
| 2015 | #3,775 | 28 |
| 2014 | #3,787 | 27 |
| 2013 | #3,964 | 25 |
| 2012 | #4,131 | 24 |
| 2011 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #4,129 | 21 |
| 2003 | #3,528 | 25 |
| 2002 | #3,259 | 27 |
| 2001 | #2,797 | 33 |
| 2000 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #2,398 | 37 |
| 1998 | #2,157 | 42 |
| 1997 | #1,310 | 87 |
| 1996 | #1,236 | 90 |
| 1995 | #983 | 127 |
| 1994 | #828 | 165 |
| 1993 | #776 | 184 |
| 1992 | #580 | 309 |
| 1991 | #498 | 391 |
| 1990 | #536 | 342 |
| 1989 | #701 | 196 |
| 1988 | #1,467 | 52 |
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First appearance
1988
The first year at least five boys were named Kadeem! It came in at #1,467, and was given to 52 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2006–2007, when fewer than 12 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 184 spots since 2024 (#4,433 → #4,249)
- 752 spots since 2020 (#3,497 → #4,249)
- 474 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #4,249)
- Biggest jump: 766 spots in 1989 (#1,467 → #701)
- Biggest drop: 253 spots in 1996 (#983 → #1,236)
Rise & fade · boys
3 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 1991 at #498 (391 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1989–1995
Share of babies · boys
1 in 5,167
- Highest: 1 in 5,167 boys born in 1991 were named Kadeem (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 71,170 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 67.1% of all boys named Kadeem (1,774) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 248 | #701 (1989) | #1,084 |
| 1990s | 1,774 | #498 (1991) | #1,130 |
| 2000s | 216 | #2,797 (2001) | #4,506 |
| 2010s | 273 | #2,891 (2017) | #3,868 |
| 2020s | 133 | #3,497 (2020) | #4,607 |
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.
Kadeem in 1990
boys
#536
342 births · 1 in 6,006 boys
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 6,006 of them was named Kadeem, which outranked 94.4% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).