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Fahim

Boys' name

Intelligent, sensible

Fahim has been given to 465 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 1997, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Fahim, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fahim: meaning, origin, and history

Intelligent, sensible

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fahim means

Fahim means “intelligent, sensible”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fahim is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /fa.ˈhiːm/ and /ˈfa.him/ for Fahim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 465 boys were recorded with the name Fahim between 1982 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1997; its best national rank was #3,012 in 1997.

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.

How common is Fahim?

Fahim had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fahim 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fahim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fahims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fahim was born before 2003 — so the typical Fahim is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
465
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (191).

Is Fahim 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (25)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,012
1997

Spellings of Fahim

Fahim is not the most common spelling — Yahir is, with 13.9% against Fahim's 0.52%.

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 Fahim is used

Across 1910–2025, Fahim was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 262,626 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Virginia1 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. Fahim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fahim around the world

Where Fahim 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
    1996–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024
  • France
    1970–2025
    #956
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2011
    #2,664
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1999–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Fahim 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
#3,012
1997
Peak year
1997
25 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
465
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fahim

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

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Sibling names for Fahim

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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