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Akeem

#2,078 in 2025Boys' name

Wise, through Hakim

Akeem has been given to 6,825 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #2,078 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 570 recorded.

Babies named Akeem, 2025

1 in 46,700

Akeem over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akeem: meaning, origin, and history

Wise, through Hakim

Arabic

What Akeem means

Akeem belongs to the name family reached through Akeem → Hakim. Its meaning is “wise”.

Origin, language, and formation

Akeem is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hakim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,825 boys were recorded with the name Akeem between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 570 in 1990; its best national rank was #404 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,262 in 2020 to #2,078 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,453 in 2015 to #2,078 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Akeem?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 46,700
71 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 24,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,078
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
32,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akeem sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 32,366 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akeem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akeems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akeem was born before 1994 — so the typical Akeem is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,825
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (2,372).

Is Akeem rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−606
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−816
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−625
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.5%
Peak was 1990 (570)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#404
1990

Spellings of Akeem

Akeem is not the most common spelling — Kareem is, with 23.4% against Akeem's 8.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Akeem is used

Across 2016–2025, Akeem was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 5,263 boys, against 1 in 13,440 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 in 50,000).

219 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 5,263
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 5,882
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 5,882
  4. 4Florida1 in 6,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 9,091
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 9,091
  7. 7New York1 in 10,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 10,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Akeem around the world

Where Akeem ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2002
    #451
    in 2002
  • France
    2015–2024
    #5,593
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,026
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1992–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Akeem

People whose public names include Akeem, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Akeem by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,078
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 816
Best rank ever
#404
1990
Peak year
1990
570 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,825
Count in 2025
71

Names similar to Akeem

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Akeem

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Akeem, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Akeem

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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