Kadeem
Kadeem was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,315 among boys’ names; 2,644 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,560 Americans named Kadeem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 27 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kadeem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kadeem?
#4,315 among boys’ names, 2025
Kadeem fell from #3,827 in 2015 to #4,315 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 14.1 per million.
391 babies in 1991, the peak
Kadeem peaked in 1991, when 391 boys were given it, #501 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,315 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,493 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,783 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,116 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,848 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,528 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,274 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,145 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,920 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,642 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,827 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,841 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 25 | #4,009 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,196 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,730 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,597 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,024 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,623 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,873 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,170 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,553 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,184 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,577 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,303 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,834 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,946 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,430 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,175 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 87 | #1,309 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,239 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 127 | #981 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 165 | #827 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 184 | #776 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 309 | #580 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 391 | #501 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 342 | #537 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 196 | #698 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 52 | #1,467 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kadeem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kadeem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kadeem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kadeem, and how old are they?
2,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,644 Americans ever recorded as Kadeem. The median Kadeem alive today is 33 years old; half are between 27 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 2,014 people named Kadeem (20 women and girls, 1,994 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,458 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 1,780 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 446 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 331 |
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 Kadeem born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #1,963 | 1.6× |
Where Kadeem is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kadeem is most over-represented in New York: since 1988 it was given 4.3 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 Kadeem 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 2,788 babies since 1880, Kadeem is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 24 babies (100%), 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 Kadeem
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 Kadeem and names like it
- Compare Kadeem and KhadeemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKadeem peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kadeem since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Kadeem.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kadeem alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.