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Raheem

#1,442 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Rahim

Raheem has been given to 8,530 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #1,442 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 556 recorded.

Babies named Raheem, 2025

1 in 26,500

Raheem over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raheem: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Rahim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Raheem means

Raheem is a alternate transcription of Rahim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Raheem is a alternate transcription of Rahim. Rahim has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rahim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,524 boys were recorded with the name Raheem between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 556 in 1993; its best national rank was #417 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,107 in 2020 to #1,442 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,215 in 2015 to #1,442 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Raheem between 1982 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1982; its best national rank was #10,121 in 1982.

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 Raheem?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,500
125 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 13,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,442
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,384 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raheem 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,384 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raheem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raheems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raheem was born before 1997 — so the typical Raheem is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,524
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (2,952).

Is Raheem 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
−73
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−335
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−227
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.5%
Peak was 1993 (556)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#417
1993

Spellings of Raheem

Raheem is not the most common spelling — Kareem is, with 23.4% against Raheem's 11.0%.

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 Raheem is used

Across 2016–2025, Raheem was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 4,000 boys, against 1 in 10,645 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

125 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 4,000
  2. 2Maryland1 in 4,545
  3. 3Florida1 in 5,556
  4. 4Virginia1 in 5,556
  5. 5Georgia1 in 6,250
  6. 6New York1 in 7,143
  7. 7Illinois1 in 7,692
  8. 8Michigan1 in 9,091

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.

Raheem around the world

Where Raheem 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
    #585
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2022
    #522
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2018–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    2010–2025
    #941
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Raheem

People whose public names include Raheem, 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.

Raheem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,442
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 335
Best rank ever
#417
1993
Peak year
1993
556 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,524
Count in 2025
125

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,121
1982
Peak year
1982
6 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Raheem

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

RahkeemHakeemRahulRahmanKareemAkeemRahimRaheimRahmirKadeemRahmelRakeemSaleemNaseemJaheemJakeemNaeemKaseemRahilFaheemWaseemRahsaanNadeemRahiem

Names with a curve like Raheem

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

CortezDeangeloRashawnGermanKeenanDimitriDarriusNigelMartezDiamondBreonDemarco

Sibling names for Raheem

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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