Hykeem

#12,726 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Hykeem has been given to 324 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #12,726 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Hykeem, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Hykeem?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,726
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hykeem 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hykeem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hykeems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hykeem was born before 1999 — so the typical Hykeem is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
324
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (132).

Is Hykeem 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
−4,756
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+61
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,527
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.7%
Peak was 1989 (23)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,718
1989

Spellings of Hykeem

Hykeem is not the most common spelling — Akeem is, with 38.7% against Hykeem's 1.8%.

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 Hykeem is used

Across 1910–2025, Hykeem was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 767,645 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in —
  2. 2North Carolina1 in —
  3. 3South Carolina1 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. Hykeem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hykeem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,726
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 61
Best rank ever
#2,718
1989
Peak year
1989
23 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
324
Count in 2025
5

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Sibling names for Hykeem

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