Shakeem
#8,798 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shakeem has been given to 839 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #8,798 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 60 recorded.
Babies named Shakeem, 2025
1 in 368,000
Shakeem 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shakeem?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,798
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shakeem 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shakeem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shakeems were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shakeem was born before 1996 — so the typical Shakeem is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 49.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 839
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 49.8% of all recorded uses (418).
Is Shakeem 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
- +927
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −184
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,362
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.82×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 15.0%
- Peak was 1994 (60)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.2% average annual change
Spellings of Shakeem
Shakeem is not the most common spelling — Akeem is, with 29.7% against Shakeem's 3.7%.
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 Shakeem is used
Across 1910–2025, Shakeem was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 147,287 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 50,000
- 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 3South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6Pennsylvania1 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. Shakeem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shakeem around the world
Where Shakeem 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 & Wales1996–2019#4,702in 2019
- Canada2020–2020#2,945in 2020
- South Australia2000–2001#581in 2001
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shakeem by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shakeem
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shakeem
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.