Hakim
Hakim was given to 46 boys in 2025, #2,776 among boys’ names; 2,361 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,250 Americans named Hakim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 18 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hakim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hakim mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hakim is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “wise” (حَكِيم).
Borrowed from Arabic حَكِيم (ḥakīm, “wise”). This surname is mostly found in Indonesia.
/həˈkiːm/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hakim?
#2,776 among boys’ names, 2025
Hakim rose from #4,115 in 2015 to #2,776 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.0 to 26.9 per million.
90 babies in 1976, the peak
Hakim peaked in 1976, when 90 boys were given it, #880 among boys’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #2,776 | 26.9 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,399 | 33.7 |
| 2023 | 42 | #2,969 | 24.6 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,296 | 20.6 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,761 | 16.6 |
| 2020 | 39 | #2,995 | 22.6 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,932 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,558 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,335 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,813 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #4,115 | 13.0 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,404 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,691 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,471 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,267 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,902 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,638 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,306 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 33 | #3,327 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,181 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,764 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,969 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 33 | #2,948 | 16.7 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,265 | 23.7 |
| 2001 | 45 | #2,256 | 23.2 |
| 2000 | 52 | #1,973 | 26.5 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,367 | 19.8 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,022 | 24.6 |
| 1997 | 35 | #2,362 | 18.6 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,049 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,309 | 17.9 |
| 1994 | 57 | #1,616 | 29.5 |
| 1993 | 51 | #1,701 | 26.0 |
| 1992 | 56 | #1,580 | 28.0 |
| 1991 | 36 | #2,062 | 17.8 |
| 1990 | 61 | #1,436 | 29.7 |
| 1989 | 41 | #1,836 | 20.5 |
| 1988 | 43 | #1,648 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 31 | #1,985 | 16.6 |
| 1986 | 36 | #1,740 | 19.5 |
| 1985 | 43 | #1,529 | 23.3 |
| 1984 | 34 | #1,704 | 18.8 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,279 | 29.0 |
| 1982 | 52 | #1,299 | 28.7 |
| 1981 | 52 | #1,279 | 29.0 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,207 | 32.5 |
| 1979 | 68 | #1,079 | 39.5 |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,102 | 38.4 |
| 1977 | 61 | #1,115 | 37.1 |
| 1976 | 90 | #880 | 57.4 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,120 | 36.5 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,300 | 27.3 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,244 | 28.2 |
| 1972 | 37 | #1,398 | 22.8 |
| 1971 | 19 | #2,158 | 10.7 |
| 1970 | 21 | #1,957 | 11.3 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,754 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,978 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,371 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,083 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,079 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,780 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,926 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,926 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hakim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hakim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hakim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hakim, and how old are they?
2,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,361 Americans ever recorded as Hakim. The median Hakim alive today is 32 years old; half are between 18 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 2,250 people named Hakim (27 women and girls, 2,223 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,040 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 545 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 667 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 565 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 452 |
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 Hakim born?
The states with the most babies named Hakim are Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 300 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| New York | 297 | #1,345 | 1.9× |
| New Jersey | 224 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| California | 98 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 16 | #1,158 | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 14 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Maryland | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Hakim is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hakim is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1962 it was given 3.3 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 Hakim 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, Hakim is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 163 babies (28%), again the second 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 Hakim
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Panagiotis | 1,320 | |
| Dimitrios | 2,682 | |
| Rico | 9,971 | |
| Athanasios | 1,284 | |
| Darek | 1,561 | |
| Rahman | 1,286 |
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 Hakim and names like it
- Compare Hakim and HakeemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sHakim peaked in 1976.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hakim since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Hakim: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Hakim.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Hakim alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with HMost given first.