Baseemah — girls' name
28 babies named Baseemah in U.S. Social Security records since 1977, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
71% of everyone ever named Baseemah was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Baseemah in 1979 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Baseemah
The Social Security Administration has registered 28 babies named Baseemah between 1977 and 1980, spanning 4 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Baseemah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1980. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Baseemah performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 20 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Baseemah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Baseemah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 28 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Baseemah at a glance
Last recorded 1980Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Baseemah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1980–1977
- Peak year (1979)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 4 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1980.
28 total births across 4 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1979 with 8 births in a single year.
Baseemah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 20 births that decade — 71% of Baseemah's all-time total
Baseemah decade highlights
- Peak decade 20 births
- Runner-up 8 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Baseemah's strongest decade
20 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 71% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1977–1980 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.