Akeem
Akeem was given to 71 boys in 2025, #2,078 among boys’ names; 6,825 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,600 Americans named Akeem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 14 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Akeem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Akeem mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Akeem is “a male given name from Arabic, variant of Hakim.”
Alternative spelling of Hakim.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Akeem?
#2,078 among boys’ names, 2025
Akeem fell from #1,453 in 2015 to #2,078 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 60.5 to 41.6 per million.
570 babies in 1990, the peak
Akeem peaked in 1990, when 570 boys were given it, #404 among boys’ names. The 71 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,078 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,472 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 113 | #1,547 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,468 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 143 | #1,307 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 145 | #1,262 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 139 | #1,312 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 147 | #1,255 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 156 | #1,191 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 137 | #1,313 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 116 | #1,453 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 92 | #1,670 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 98 | #1,578 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,524 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 80 | #1,795 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 89 | #1,713 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 96 | #1,638 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 89 | #1,708 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 70 | #1,996 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 85 | #1,669 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,178 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 66 | #1,853 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,027 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 65 | #1,769 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 63 | #1,773 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 77 | #1,548 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 61 | #1,708 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 97 | #1,244 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 116 | #1,087 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 146 | #900 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 174 | #806 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 222 | #697 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 242 | #659 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 325 | #562 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 419 | #482 | 0.21 |
| 1990 | 570 | #404 | 0.28 |
| 1989 | 459 | #440 | 0.23 |
| 1988 | 221 | #640 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 178 | #680 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 283 | #526 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 159 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 255 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 192 | #617 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,773 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,513 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,142 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,070 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,790 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,910 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,020 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,475 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,236 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,512 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,448 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Akeem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Akeem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Akeem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Akeem, and how old are they?
6,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 6,825 Americans ever recorded as Akeem. The median Akeem alive today is 32 years old; half are between 14 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 5,312 people named Akeem (26 women and girls, 5,286 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,987 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 61 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,590 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Akeem born?
The states with the most babies named Akeem are Florida, Georgia and New York, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 11 | #1,127 | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 8 | #991 | 2.1× |
| New York | 7 | #1,421 | 2.3× |
| California | 7 | #2,003 | 0.3× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,587 | 0.3× |
Where Akeem is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Akeem is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1972 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Akeem with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,338 babies since 1880, Akeem is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 71 of their 97 babies (73%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Akeem
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Akeem and names like it
- Compare Akeem and AkimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAkeem peaked in 1990.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Akeem since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Akeem.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Akeem alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.