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Kadeem

#4,315 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kadeem has been given to 2,644 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #4,315 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 391 recorded.

Babies named Kadeem, 2025

1 in 138,000

Kadeem over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kadeem: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kadeem means

Kadeem is a given name.

The naming story behind Kadeem

Wikidata records Kadeem as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q21000161, 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, 2,644 boys were recorded with the name Kadeem between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 391 in 1991; its best national rank was #501 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,528 in 2020 to #4,315 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,827 in 2015 to #4,315 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.

How common is Kadeem?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,315
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kadeem 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kadeem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kadeems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kadeem was born before 1993 — so the typical Kadeem is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
67.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,644
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 67.1% of all recorded uses (1,774).

Is Kadeem 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
+178
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−787
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−488
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.1%
Peak was 1991 (391)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#501
1991

Spellings of Kadeem

Kadeem is not the most common spelling — Kaden is, with 45.3% against Kadeem's 1.7%.

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 Kadeem is used

Across 1910–2025, Kadeem was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 72,680 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 16,667
  2. 2Florida1 in 33,333
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 50,000
  7. 7District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

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. Kadeem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kadeem around the world

Where Kadeem 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2000
    #2,026
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kadeem

People whose public names include Kadeem, 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.

Kadeem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,315
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 787
Best rank ever
#501
1991
Peak year
1991
391 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,644
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Kadeem

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

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Names with a curve like Kadeem

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

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Sibling names for Kadeem

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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