Shakeem
#8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 60 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 839since 1976
Shakeem over time
Rank among boys' names. Shakeem has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #5,338 | 17 |
| 2020 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #3,143 | 28 |
| 2000 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #2,865 | 29 |
| 1998 | #2,450 | 35 |
| 1997 | #2,060 | 43 |
| 1996 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | #1,801 | 48 |
| 1994 | #1,544 | 60 |
| 1993 | #1,850 | 45 |
| 1992 | #1,820 | 45 |
| 1991 | #1,744 | 46 |
| 1990 | #2,128 | 34 |
| 1989 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
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| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shakeem! It came in at #5,587, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Shakeem
- 744 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #8,243)
- 176 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #8,243)
- 1,177 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #8,243)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 1994 at #1,544 (60 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,201 boys born in 1994 were named Shakeem (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 49.8% of all boys named Shakeem (418) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 15 | #5,587 (1976) | #5,805 |
| 1980s | 104 | #2,469 (1989) | #4,523 |
| 1990s | 418 | #1,544 (1994) | #2,064 |
| 2000s | 140 | #2,922 (2000) | #5,710 |
| 2010s | 99 | #6,703 (2018) | #7,779 |
| 2020s | 63 | #5,338 (2021) | #8,125 |
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.
Shakeem in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 32,201 of them was named Shakeem, which outranked 84.9% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,531Vito61
- #1,531Zaire61
- #1,531Zakery61
- #1,544Shakeem60
- #1,544Alfonzo60
- #1,544Anibal60
- #1,544Camilo60
- #1,564Ajay59
- #1,564Cannon59
- #1,564Carmelo59
Tied with 19 names at #1,544; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.