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Faheem

#9,164 in 2025Boys' name

To understand

Faheem has been given to 808 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #9,164 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Faheem, 2025

1 in 414,000

Faheem over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Faheem: meaning, origin, and history

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Arabic

What Faheem means

Faheem means “to understand”, associated with fahīm.

Origin, language, and formation

Faheem is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Faheem comes through Arabic فَهِيم.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 808 boys were recorded with the name Faheem between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2008; its best national rank was #2,086 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,525 in 2020 to #9,164 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,814 in 2015 to #9,164 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 Faheem?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,164
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Faheem 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Faheem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Faheems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Faheem was born before 2000 — so the typical Faheem is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
22.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
808
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1990s — 22.9% of all recorded uses (185).

Is Faheem 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
+2,194
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,639
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,350
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.6%
Peak was 2008 (28)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,086
1977

Spellings of Faheem

Faheem is not the most common spelling — Kareem is, with 27.0% against Faheem's 1.2%.

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 Faheem is used

Across 1910–2025, Faheem was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 400,507 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New 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. Faheem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Faheem around the world

Where Faheem 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
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2017–2021
    #5,467
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #2,281
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Faheem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,164
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,639
Best rank ever
#2,086
1977
Peak year
2008
28 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
808
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Faheem

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

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Sibling names for Faheem

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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