Jaheem
Jaheem was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,925 among boys’ names; 1,234 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Jaheem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaheem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaheem?
#4,925 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaheem fell from #2,992 in 2015 to #4,925 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.3 to 11.7 per million.
182 babies in 2002, the peak
Jaheem peaked in 2002, when 182 boys were given it, #891 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,925 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,308 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,153 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,353 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,054 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,325 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,266 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,392 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,540 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,721 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #2,992 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,839 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,232 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,475 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,329 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,200 | 18.2 |
| 2009 | 38 | #3,072 | 19.2 |
| 2008 | 52 | #2,445 | 25.5 |
| 2007 | 48 | #2,579 | 23.1 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,421 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 46 | #2,471 | 23.0 |
| 2004 | 80 | #1,618 | 40.3 |
| 2003 | 115 | #1,257 | 58.2 |
| 2002 | 182 | #891 | 93.7 |
| 2001 | 131 | #1,090 | 67.4 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,049 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,566 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,741 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,859 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,741 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,212 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,617 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,301 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,546 | 4.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,749 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaheem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaheem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaheem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaheem, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,234 Americans ever recorded as Jaheem. The median Jaheem alive today is 21 years old; half are between 13 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 869 people named Jaheem (4 women and girls, 865 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,091 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 39 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 864 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 313 |
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 Jaheem born?
The states with the most babies named Jaheem are New York, Florida and North Carolina, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 157 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Florida | 122 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 76 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| New Jersey | 43 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| South Carolina | 24 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 23 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 20 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Mississippi | 12 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Jaheem is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaheem is most over-represented in New York: since 1988 it was given 2.1 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 Jaheem 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 6,846 babies since 1880, Jaheem is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 79 babies (25%), the second most given that year.
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 Jaheem
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 Jaheem and names like it
- Compare Jaheem and JaheimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaheem peaked in 2002.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaheem since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Jaheem.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaheem alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.