Meaning not yet researched.
Raheem: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 125 in 2025. Its best rank was #417 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #417 in 1993; #1,442 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Raheem in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,442 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #417.
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Raheem: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 125 boys in 2025. Peak: #417 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 556 (1993).
In 2025, 125 US boys were named Raheem, making it the 1,442nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 73 places from #1,369 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 138 boys named Raheem in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #417, reached in 1993. That year also had the most boys given the name: 556. For comparison, it was #1,215 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raheem in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 8,530 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,952 babies named Raheem.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,607 US boys were named Raheem; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 187. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,665 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raheem ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #716 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Rahim, Raheim and Rahiem 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: Rahim (1,905), Raheim (880), Rahiem (652), Rahm (172), Rahem (33), Raheam (16), Rahiim (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 Raheem 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 10 | #716 | #770 |
| Maryland | 6 | #785 | #570 |
| Florida | 14 | #997 | #1,168 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,083 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,147 | #941 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,225 | #972 |
| New York | 8 | #1,377 | #991 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,425 | #963 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,442 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,503 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,537 | #1,188 |
| California | 6 | #2,399 | #1,728 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 125 | #1,442 |
| 2024 | — | — | 138 | #1,369 |
| 2023 | — | — | 157 | #1,243 |
| 2022 | — | — | 158 | #1,248 |
| 2021 | — | — | 156 | #1,236 |
| 2020 | — | — | 179 | #1,107 |
| 2019 | — | — | 179 | #1,106 |
| 2018 | — | — | 170 | #1,137 |
| 2017 | — | — | 187 | #1,062 |
| 2016 | — | — | 158 | #1,200 |
| 2015 | — | — | 152 | #1,215 |
| 2014 | — | — | 150 | #1,223 |
| 2013 | — | — | 133 | #1,302 |
| 2012 | — | — | 128 | #1,335 |
| 2011 | — | — | 131 | #1,308 |
| 2010 | — | — | 120 | #1,396 |
| 2009 | — | — | 121 | #1,408 |
| 2008 | — | — | 139 | #1,258 |
| 2007 | — | — | 116 | #1,410 |
| 2006 | — | — | 120 | #1,356 |
| 2005 | — | — | 101 | #1,459 |
| 2004 | — | — | 101 | #1,411 |
| 2003 | — | — | 121 | #1,217 |
| 2002 | — | — | 147 | #1,047 |
| 2001 | — | — | 143 | #1,033 |
| 2000 | — | — | 169 | #916 |
| 1999 | — | — | 183 | #830 |
| 1998 | — | — | 221 | #737 |
| 1997 | — | — | 223 | #710 |
| 1996 | — | — | 278 | #625 |
| 1995 | — | — | 321 | #571 |
| 1994 | — | — | 384 | #515 |
| 1993 | — | — | 556 | #417 |
| 1992 | — | — | 395 | #509 |
| 1991 | — | — | 217 | #688 |
| 1990 | — | — | 174 | #772 |
| 1989 | — | — | 156 | #798 |
| 1988 | — | — | 105 | #940 |
| 1987 | — | — | 112 | #887 |
| 1986 | — | — | 81 | #1,035 |
| 1985 | — | — | 89 | #969 |
| 1984 | — | — | 83 | #982 |
| 1983 | — | — | 121 | #799 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,124 | 127 | #781 |
| 1981 | — | — | 154 | #700 |
| 1980 | — | — | 156 | #698 |
| 1979 | — | — | 117 | #809 |
| 1978 | — | — | 108 | #824 |
| 1977 | — | — | 148 | #699 |
| 1976 | — | — | 67 | #1,018 |
| 1975 | — | — | 69 | #992 |
| 1974 | — | — | 48 | #1,212 |
| 1973 | — | — | 51 | #1,161 |
| 1972 | — | — | 39 | #1,358 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,100 |
| 1970 | — | — | 15 | #2,480 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,819 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,475 |
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).