Rakeem

#3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births

Peak · boys
1992 · 183 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,182
since 1975

Rakeem over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Rakeem has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201975peak #770, 1992boys
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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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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#3,65830
2024#4,70121
2023#3,11739
2022#4,18425
2021#2,86243
2020#2,84642
2019#3,10338
2018#3,10637
2017#3,31234
2016#2,93540
2015#3,51331
2014#4,13824
2013#3,40531
2012#3,05937
2011#4,22123
2010#4,09924
2009#3,91926
2008#3,48631
2007#4,12724
2006#4,52020
2005#3,17232
2004#5,00716
2003#5,03515
2002#3,67023
2001#2,79733
2000#2,17546
1999#2,02347
1998#1,55868
1997#1,62862
1996#1,32182
1995#970130
1994#1,053112
1993#940131
1992#770183
1991#824158
1990#937121
1989#902126
1988#1,40455
1987#2,05729
1986#3,26814
1985#4,3339
1984#3,45912
1983#6,2385
1982#3,96610
1981#6,2625
1980#3,83810
1979#3,81010
1978#3,21512
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First appearance
1975

The first year at least five boys were named Rakeem! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1976–1977, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Rakeem
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 1,043 spots since 2024 (#4,701#3,658)
  • 812 spots since 2020 (#2,846#3,658)
  • 145 spots since 2015 (#3,513#3,658)
  • Biggest jump: 502 spots in 1989 (#1,404#902)
  • Biggest drop: 351 spots in 1996 (#970#1,321)
Rise & fade · boys
17 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 1992 at #770 (183 births)
  • Births halved by 1996, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1989–1993
Share of babies · boys
1 in 10,915
  • Highest: 1 in 10,915 boys born in 1992 were named Rakeem (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 50.1% of all boys named Rakeem (1,094) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s28#3,215 (1978)#3,941
1980s275#902 (1989)#3,573
1990s1,094#770 (1992)#1,202
2000s266#2,175 (2000)#3,791
2010s319#2,935 (2016)#3,489
2020s200#2,846 (2020)#3,561

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.

Rakeem in 1975

boys
#4,797
6 births · 1 in 260,226 boys

Top boys' names in 1975

  1. #1Michael68,418
  2. #2Jason52,159
  3. #3Christopher46,575
  4. #4James39,569
  5. #5David39,156
  6. #6Robert35,306
  7. #7John35,079
  8. #8Brian30,578
  9. #9Matthew28,527
  10. #10William25,561
  11. #4,797Rakeem6
More about 1975

boys

1,561,357 boys got a published name in 1975; 1 in 260,226 of them was named Rakeem, which outranked 24.3% of the 6,337 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Rakeem
  1. #4,309Worth7
  2. #4,309Zeno7
  3. #4,309Zephaniah7
  4. #4,797Rakeem6
  5. #4,797Aaren6
  6. #4,797Abiel6
  7. #4,797Abu6
  8. #5,464Aaran5
  9. #5,464Aasim5
  10. #5,464Abbas5

Tied with 666 names at #4,797; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1974
Risers
  1. 722Benjiman#1,692#970
  2. 702Marques#1,520#818
  3. 645Glendon#1,409#764
  4. 502Benji#1,124#622
  5. 471Regan#1,409#938
Fallers
  1. 905Toma#882#1,787
  2. 830Vashon#923#1,753
  3. 352Bruno#993#1,345
  4. 327Hollis#953#1,280
  5. 303Domenico#977#1,280

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

See the top 100 for 1975