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Rakeem

#3,732 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Rakeem has been given to 2,182 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #3,732 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 183 recorded.

Babies named Rakeem, 2025

1 in 111,000

Rakeem over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rakeem: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rakeem means

Rakeem is a given name.

The naming story behind Rakeem

Wikidata records Rakeem as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q48803212, 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, 2,182 boys were recorded with the name Rakeem between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 183 in 1992; its best national rank was #771 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,877 in 2020 to #3,732 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,568 in 2015 to #3,732 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 Rakeem?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,732
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rakeem 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rakeem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rakeems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rakeem was born before 1995 — so the typical Rakeem is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
50.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,182
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 50.1% of all recorded uses (1,094).

Is Rakeem 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
+1,102
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−855
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−164
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.97×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.4%
Peak was 1992 (183)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#771
1992

Spellings of Rakeem

Rakeem is not the most common spelling — Kareem is, with 28.6% against Rakeem's 3.4%.

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 Rakeem is used

Across 1910–2025, Rakeem was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 118,235 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 20,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 33,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 100,000
  6. 6District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Rakeem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rakeem around the world

Where Rakeem 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
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–1995
    #1,910
    in 1995

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 Rakeem

People whose public names include Rakeem, 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.

Rakeem in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rakeem. Linked forms have their own page here.

Rahkeim

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rakeem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,732
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 855
Best rank ever
#771
1992
Peak year
1992
183 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,182
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Rakeem

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

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Names with a curve like Rakeem

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

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Sibling names for Rakeem

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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