Meaning not yet researched.
Jaheem: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #892 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #892 in 2002; #4,926 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaheem in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,926 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #892.
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Jaheem: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #892 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 182 (2002).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Jaheem, making it the 4,926th most common boys’ name of the year, up 386 places from #5,312 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 18 boys named Jaheem in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #892, reached in 2002. That year also had the most boys given the name: 182. For comparison, it was #2,993 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaheem in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 1,234 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 752 babies named Jaheem.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 238 US boys were named Jaheem; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jaheim (4,067 babies since 1880) and Jahiem (1,545 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Jaheem in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 20 | #4,926 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,312 |
| 2023 | — | — | 26 | #4,157 |
| 2022 | — | — | 24 | #4,357 |
| 2021 | — | — | 26 | #4,058 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,329 |
| 2019 | — | — | 24 | #4,270 |
| 2018 | — | — | 17 | #5,396 |
| 2017 | — | — | 31 | #3,544 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,722 |
| 2015 | — | — | 39 | #2,993 |
| 2014 | — | — | 15 | #5,843 |
| 2013 | — | — | 23 | #4,234 |
| 2012 | — | — | 31 | #3,478 |
| 2011 | — | — | 33 | #3,330 |
| 2010 | — | — | 35 | #3,201 |
| 2009 | — | — | 38 | #3,073 |
| 2008 | — | — | 52 | #2,446 |
| 2007 | — | — | 48 | #2,579 |
| 2006 | — | — | 51 | #2,422 |
| 2005 | — | — | 46 | #2,475 |
| 2004 | — | — | 80 | #1,621 |
| 2003 | — | — | 115 | #1,258 |
| 2002 | — | — | 182 | #892 |
| 2001 | — | — | 131 | #1,092 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,057 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,574 |
| 1998 | — | — | 14 | #4,746 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #6,865 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,748 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,219 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,623 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,307 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,553 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,756 |
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).