Meaning not yet researched.
Naeem: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,522 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,522 in 1979; #2,325 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Naeem in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,325 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #1,522.
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Naeem: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,522 in 1979 · most boys in one year: 71 (2006).
In 2025, 60 US boys were named Naeem, making it the 2,325th most common boys’ name of the year, down 199 places from #2,126 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 70 boys named Naeem in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,522, reached in 1979. The most boys given the name in a single year was 71, in 2006. For comparison, it was #2,514 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Naeem in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 2,120 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 551 babies named Naeem.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 595 US boys were named Naeem; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,468 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Naeem ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #1,206 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Naim (2,697 babies since 1880) and Nahum (2,197 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nayeem 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: Nayeem (36).
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 Naeem 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 5 | #1,206 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,517 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,136 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 60 | #2,325 |
| 2024 | — | — | 70 | #2,126 |
| 2023 | — | — | 59 | #2,356 |
| 2022 | — | — | 65 | #2,230 |
| 2021 | — | — | 56 | #2,425 |
| 2020 | — | — | 60 | #2,279 |
| 2019 | — | — | 56 | #2,411 |
| 2018 | — | — | 54 | #2,436 |
| 2017 | — | — | 64 | #2,149 |
| 2016 | — | — | 51 | #2,504 |
| 2015 | — | — | 50 | #2,514 |
| 2014 | — | — | 54 | #2,394 |
| 2013 | — | — | 54 | #2,354 |
| 2012 | — | — | 58 | #2,256 |
| 2011 | — | — | 57 | #2,277 |
| 2010 | — | — | 53 | #2,387 |
| 2009 | — | — | 53 | #2,434 |
| 2008 | — | — | 53 | #2,423 |
| 2007 | — | — | 57 | #2,295 |
| 2006 | — | — | 71 | #1,910 |
| 2005 | — | — | 50 | #2,352 |
| 2004 | — | — | 38 | #2,776 |
| 2003 | — | — | 39 | #2,605 |
| 2002 | — | — | 31 | #2,994 |
| 2001 | — | — | 41 | #2,413 |
| 2000 | — | — | 44 | #2,241 |
| 1999 | — | — | 41 | #2,254 |
| 1998 | — | — | 29 | #2,832 |
| 1997 | — | — | 35 | #2,380 |
| 1996 | — | — | 27 | #2,808 |
| 1995 | — | — | 36 | #2,242 |
| 1994 | — | — | 38 | #2,159 |
| 1993 | — | — | 28 | #2,625 |
| 1992 | — | — | 44 | #1,870 |
| 1991 | — | — | 32 | #2,276 |
| 1990 | — | — | 37 | #2,038 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,965 |
| 1988 | — | — | 23 | #2,569 |
| 1987 | — | — | 16 | #3,160 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,380 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #3,042 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,394 |
| 1983 | — | — | 23 | #2,253 |
| 1982 | — | — | 26 | #2,095 |
| 1981 | — | — | 27 | #2,025 |
| 1980 | — | — | 27 | #2,036 |
| 1979 | — | — | 39 | #1,522 |
| 1978 | — | — | 36 | #1,588 |
| 1977 | — | — | 29 | #1,814 |
| 1976 | — | — | 26 | #1,914 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,185 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,476 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,954 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,796 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,554 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,348 |
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).