Meaning not yet researched.
Hakeem: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 117 in 2025. Its best rank was #586 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #586 in 1989; #1,502 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hakeem in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,502 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #586.
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Hakeem: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 117 boys in 2025. Peak: #586 in 1989 · most boys in one year: 279 (1989).
In 2025, 117 US boys were named Hakeem, making it the 1,502nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 239 places from #1,263 in 2024. That is 39 fewer than the 156 boys named Hakeem in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #586, reached in 1989. That year also had the most boys given the name: 279. For comparison, it was #1,162 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hakeem in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 9 babies. In all, 6,299 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,187 babies named Hakeem.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,857 US boys were named Hakeem; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 237. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,599 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hakeem ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #824 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Hakim (2,361 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hakiem, Hakeim and Hakam 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hakiem (97), Hakeim (34), Hakam (20), Haikeem (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 Hakeem 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 10 | #824 | #1,023 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,147 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,157 | #1,282 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,317 | #1,578 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,345 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,419 | #602 |
| California | 12 | #1,465 | #1,679 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 117 | #1,502 |
| 2024 | — | — | 156 | #1,263 |
| 2023 | — | — | 178 | #1,164 |
| 2022 | — | — | 189 | #1,122 |
| 2021 | — | — | 173 | #1,157 |
| 2020 | — | — | 227 | #959 |
| 2019 | — | — | 191 | #1,068 |
| 2018 | — | — | 191 | #1,061 |
| 2017 | — | — | 198 | #1,021 |
| 2016 | — | — | 237 | #910 |
| 2015 | — | — | 160 | #1,162 |
| 2014 | — | — | 72 | #1,985 |
| 2013 | — | — | 90 | #1,671 |
| 2012 | — | — | 77 | #1,887 |
| 2011 | — | — | 70 | #1,977 |
| 2010 | — | — | 76 | #1,887 |
| 2009 | — | — | 74 | #1,929 |
| 2008 | — | — | 75 | #1,922 |
| 2007 | — | — | 73 | #1,930 |
| 2006 | — | — | 74 | #1,847 |
| 2005 | — | — | 76 | #1,746 |
| 2004 | — | — | 79 | #1,636 |
| 2003 | — | — | 86 | #1,503 |
| 2002 | — | — | 83 | #1,510 |
| 2001 | — | — | 115 | #1,187 |
| 2000 | — | — | 132 | #1,077 |
| 1999 | — | — | 134 | #1,034 |
| 1998 | — | — | 194 | #788 |
| 1997 | — | — | 226 | #703 |
| 1996 | — | — | 241 | #678 |
| 1995 | — | — | 247 | #668 |
| 1994 | — | — | 265 | #638 |
| 1993 | — | — | 166 | #822 |
| 1992 | — | — | 201 | #729 |
| 1991 | — | — | 243 | #653 |
| 1990 | — | — | 270 | #612 |
| 1989 | — | — | 279 | #586 |
| 1988 | — | — | 65 | #1,274 |
| 1987 | — | — | 55 | #1,347 |
| 1986 | — | — | 29 | #2,024 |
| 1985 | — | — | 36 | #1,708 |
| 1984 | — | — | 50 | #1,331 |
| 1983 | — | — | 35 | #1,669 |
| 1982 | — | — | 22 | #2,296 |
| 1981 | — | — | 31 | #1,828 |
| 1980 | — | — | 32 | #1,780 |
| 1979 | — | — | 42 | #1,445 |
| 1978 | — | — | 32 | #1,702 |
| 1977 | — | — | 33 | #1,655 |
| 1976 | — | — | 30 | #1,722 |
| 1975 | — | — | 25 | #1,908 |
| 1974 | — | — | 16 | #2,500 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,771 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,446 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,474 |
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).