Naheem
#5,531 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Naheem has been given to 502 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #5,531 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 24 recorded.
Babies named Naheem, 2025
1 in 195,000
Naheem over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Naheem?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 195,000
- 17 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 100,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,531
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Naheem sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naheem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Naheems were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Naheem was born before 2010 — so the typical Naheem is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 30.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 502
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (155).
Is Naheem 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
- +53
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +85
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,970
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.89×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 70.8%
- Peak was 2009 (24)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.6% average annual change
Spellings of Naheem
Naheem is not the most common spelling — Kareem is, with 23.8% against Naheem's 0.66%.
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 Naheem is used
Across 1910–2025, Naheem was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,300,814 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Pennsylvania1 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. Naheem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Naheem around the world
Where Naheem 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 & Wales1996–2024#5,120in 2024
- France2018–2025#3,935in 2025
- South Australia2004–2004#589in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Naheem by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Naheem
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Naheem
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.