Meaning not yet researched.
Akeem: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 71 in 2025. Its best rank was #405 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #405 in 1990; #2,078 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Akeem in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,078 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #405.
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Akeem: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 71 boys in 2025. Peak: #405 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 570 (1990).
In 2025, 71 US boys were named Akeem, making it the 2,078th most common boys’ name of the year, down 606 places from #1,472 in 2024. That is 52 fewer than the 123 boys named Akeem in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #405, reached in 1990. That year also had the most boys given the name: 570. For comparison, it was #1,453 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Akeem in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 6 babies. In all, 6,825 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,372 babies named Akeem.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,297 US boys were named Akeem; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 156. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,057 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Akeem ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #991 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Akim, Ahkeem and Akiem are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Akim (813), Ahkeem (450), Akiem (105), Aikeem (95), Akeim (50), Ackeem (32), Aakeem (16), Akam (10), Aukeem (5), Akeam (5), Akem (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Akeem in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 8 | #991 | #909 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,127 | #838 |
| New York | 7 | #1,421 | #1,632 |
| California | 7 | #2,003 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #2,587 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 71 | #2,078 |
| 2024 | — | — | 123 | #1,472 |
| 2023 | — | — | 113 | #1,547 |
| 2022 | — | — | 123 | #1,468 |
| 2021 | — | — | 143 | #1,307 |
| 2020 | — | — | 145 | #1,262 |
| 2019 | — | — | 139 | #1,312 |
| 2018 | — | — | 147 | #1,255 |
| 2017 | — | — | 156 | #1,191 |
| 2016 | — | — | 137 | #1,313 |
| 2015 | — | — | 116 | #1,453 |
| 2014 | — | — | 92 | #1,670 |
| 2013 | — | — | 98 | #1,578 |
| 2012 | — | — | 105 | #1,524 |
| 2011 | — | — | 80 | #1,796 |
| 2010 | — | — | 89 | #1,713 |
| 2009 | — | — | 96 | #1,639 |
| 2008 | — | — | 89 | #1,708 |
| 2007 | — | — | 70 | #1,996 |
| 2006 | — | — | 85 | #1,669 |
| 2005 | — | — | 55 | #2,182 |
| 2004 | — | — | 66 | #1,857 |
| 2003 | — | — | 56 | #2,031 |
| 2002 | — | — | 65 | #1,772 |
| 2001 | — | — | 63 | #1,777 |
| 2000 | — | — | 77 | #1,552 |
| 1999 | — | — | 61 | #1,711 |
| 1998 | — | — | 97 | #1,247 |
| 1997 | — | — | 116 | #1,089 |
| 1996 | — | — | 146 | #902 |
| 1995 | — | — | 174 | #809 |
| 1994 | — | — | 222 | #698 |
| 1993 | — | — | 242 | #660 |
| 1992 | — | — | 325 | #563 |
| 1991 | — | — | 419 | #482 |
| 1990 | — | — | 570 | #405 |
| 1989 | — | — | 459 | #440 |
| 1988 | — | — | 221 | #640 |
| 1987 | — | — | 178 | #680 |
| 1986 | — | — | 283 | #526 |
| 1985 | — | — | 159 | #698 |
| 1984 | — | — | 255 | #542 |
| 1983 | — | — | 192 | #617 |
| 1982 | — | — | 32 | #1,774 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,515 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,143 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,072 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,793 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #2,911 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,022 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,477 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,238 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,514 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,450 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).