Jakeem
Jakeem was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,289 among boys’ names; 1,160 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Jakeem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakeem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakeem?
#5,289 among boys’ names, 2025
Jakeem fell from #3,047 in 2015 to #5,289 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.8 to 10.5 per million.
59 babies in 2002, the peak
Jakeem peaked in 2002, when 59 boys were given it, #1,899 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,289 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,555 | 18.6 |
| 2023 | 29 | #3,833 | 17.0 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,488 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,769 | 16.6 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,369 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,940 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 36 | #3,196 | 19.8 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,034 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,824 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,047 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,493 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,445 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,409 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,831 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,573 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,857 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,376 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,209 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,636 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 37 | #2,860 | 18.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,397 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,807 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 59 | #1,899 | 30.4 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,066 | 26.2 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,940 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 32 | #2,685 | 16.7 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,614 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,572 | 16.4 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,630 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,361 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,885 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,295 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 36 | #2,140 | 18.0 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,426 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,222 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,137 | 9.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,570 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,255 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,833 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakeem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jakeem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jakeem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakeem, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,160 Americans ever recorded as Jakeem. The median Jakeem alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 754 people named Jakeem (5 women and girls, 749 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 990 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 204 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 538 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 391 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,750 babies since 1880, Jakeem is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 27 babies (67%), 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 Jakeem
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 Jakeem and names like it
- Compare Jakeem and JahkeemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJakeem peaked in 2002.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakeem since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Jakeem.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jakeem alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.