Bekim

Boys' name

Blessing

Bekim has been given to 161 babies in the U.S. since 1970. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1981, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Bekim, 2019

1 in 694,000

Bekim over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bekim: meaning, origin, and history

Blessing

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bekim means

Bekim means “blessing”, associated with bekim.

Origin, language, and formation

Bekim is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 161 boys were recorded with the name Bekim between 1970 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1981; its best national rank was #3,880 in 1981.

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 Bekim?

Bekim had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019: 1 in 694,000; 5 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only: 1 in 359,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,354 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Bekim 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 2019 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bekim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bekims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bekim was born before 1987 — so the typical Bekim is around 38 today.

Median birth year: 1987; About 38 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 41.6%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 161; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (44).

Is Bekim 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1981 (10)
Years since peak: 44; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,880; 1981

Spellings of Bekim

Bekim is not the most common spelling — Kim is, with 77.9% against Bekim's 0.36%.

Kim77.9%34,951
Denim6.1%2,721
Hakim5.3%2,361
Rakim2.9%1,322
Selim2.3%1,023
Beckam2.2%1,000
Akim1.8%813
Ekam1.2%519

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 Bekim is used

Across 1910–2025, Bekim was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 605,629 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in —

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. Bekim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bekim around the world

Where Bekim 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
2000–2020
#3,848
in 2020
France
1975–2025
#5,588
in 2025
South Australia
1979–2010
#754
in 2010

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

Bekim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,880; 1981
Peak year: 1981; 10 that year
First recorded: 1970
Last recorded: 2019
All-time count: 161
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Bekim

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

Jakim Beka Eliakim Joakim Bekam Rakim Akim Rahkim Lakim Hakim Bekham Shakim Tykim Bekett Dakim Bek Yakim Takim Arkim Shykim Jahkim Haakim Barkim Abdihakim

Sibling names for Bekim

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

For a sister

Shamika Kandi Fawn Joi Jessi Jenelle Charissa Latrice

For a brother

Chauncey Leopoldo Jerod Dusty Jamaal Wilfredo Antwan Donnell

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