Hakeem
Hakeem was given to 117 boys in 2025, #1,502 among boys’ names; 6,299 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,140 Americans named Hakeem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 9 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hakeem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hakeem mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hakeem is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Alternative spelling of Hakim.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hakeem?
#1,502 among boys’ names, 2025
Hakeem fell from #1,162 in 2015 to #1,502 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 83.5 to 68.5 per million.
279 babies in 1989, the peak
Hakeem peaked in 1989, when 279 boys were given it, #585 among boys’ names. The 117 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,502 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 156 | #1,263 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 178 | #1,164 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 189 | #1,122 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 173 | #1,157 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 227 | #959 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 191 | #1,068 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 191 | #1,061 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 198 | #1,021 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 237 | #910 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 160 | #1,162 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 72 | #1,984 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 90 | #1,670 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 77 | #1,886 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 70 | #1,976 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 76 | #1,886 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 74 | #1,928 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 75 | #1,922 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 73 | #1,930 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 74 | #1,847 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 76 | #1,743 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 79 | #1,633 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 86 | #1,500 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 83 | #1,507 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 115 | #1,185 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 132 | #1,075 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 134 | #1,032 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 194 | #787 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 226 | #702 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 241 | #677 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 247 | #666 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 265 | #637 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 166 | #820 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 201 | #727 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 243 | #651 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 270 | #610 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 279 | #585 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,270 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 55 | #1,345 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,022 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 36 | #1,707 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 50 | #1,330 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 35 | #1,668 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 22 | #2,295 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 31 | #1,827 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 32 | #1,780 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 42 | #1,445 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 32 | #1,702 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 33 | #1,655 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 30 | #1,721 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,907 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,498 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,769 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,444 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,472 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hakeem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hakeem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hakeem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hakeem, and how old are they?
6,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 6,299 Americans ever recorded as Hakeem. The median Hakeem alive today is 25 years old; half are between 9 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 4,440 people named Hakeem (17 women and girls, 4,423 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,205 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 220 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,160 |
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 Hakeem born?
The states with the most babies named Hakeem are Texas, California and New York, with 60% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,317 | 0.4× |
| California | 12 | #1,465 | 0.4× |
| New York | 10 | #1,157 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 10 | #824 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,419 | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,345 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,147 | 1.1× |
Where Hakeem is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hakeem is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1971 it was given 2.5 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 Hakeem 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,757 babies since 1880, Hakeem is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 117 of their 163 babies (72%), 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 Hakeem
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 Hakeem and names like it
- Compare Hakeem and HakimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sHakeem peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hakeem since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Hakeem: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Hakeem.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hakeem alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.