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Jaheim

#2,903 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jaheim has been given to 4,067 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #2,903 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 752 recorded.

Babies named Jaheim, 2025

1 in 77,100

Jaheim over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaheim: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaheim means

Jaheim is a given name.

The naming story behind Jaheim

Wikidata records Jaheim as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q123053954, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,062 boys were recorded with the name Jaheim between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 752 in 2002; its best national rank was #356 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,776 in 2020 to #2,903 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,880 in 2015 to #2,903 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Jaheim between 2002 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2002; its best national rank was #16,477 in 2002.

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 Jaheim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 39,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,903
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaheim 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaheim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaheims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaheim was born before 2004 — so the typical Jaheim is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
71.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,062
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 71.7% of all recorded uses (2,911).

Is Jaheim 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
−548
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−127
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,023
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.7%
Peak was 2002 (752)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#356
2002

Spellings of Jaheim

Jaheim is not the most common spelling — Raheem is, with 26.6% against Jaheim's 12.7%.

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 Jaheim is used

Across 2016–2025, Jaheim was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 35,683 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 10,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 11,111
  3. 3New York1 in 16,667
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 25,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 50,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 50,000

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.

Jaheim around the world

Where Jaheim 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
    2001–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2002–2025
    #4,591
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2006
    #657
    in 2006

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.

Notable people named Jaheim

People whose public names include Jaheim, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jaheim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,903
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 127
Best rank ever
#356
2002
Peak year
2002
752 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,062
Count in 2025
43

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,477
2002
Peak year
2002
5 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jaheim

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

JahmirJahlilJahariJahiemJahirJaheemJahsehJahsirJahkaiJahmariJahleelJahvonJahzielJahsiahJahanJahazielJahdielJahmalJahmereJahsonJahzirJahmaiJahaanRaheim

Names with a curve like Jaheim

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jaheim, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

OmarionKadinKeshaunKeyshawnGavenAmarionJaylanTreytonKobyJaedonSavionLatrell

Sibling names for Jaheim

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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