Braheem
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Braheem has been given to 254 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1979, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Braheem, 2014
1 in 530,000
Braheem over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Braheem?
Braheem had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 530,000
- 7 of 3,706,812 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 274,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 367,053 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Braheem sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 367,053 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Braheem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Braheems were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Braheem was born before 1989 — so the typical Braheem is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 42.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 46.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 254
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (107).
Is Braheem 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1979 (18)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.2% average annual change
Spellings of Braheem
Braheem is not the most common spelling — Raheem is, with 45.5% against Braheem's 1.4%.
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 Braheem is used
Across 1910–2025, Braheem was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 96,389 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 2New Jersey1 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. Braheem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Braheem around the world
Where Braheem 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.
- South Australia2004–2004#589in 2004
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Braheem by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Braheem
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Braheem
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.