Kareem — #675 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kareem

The Social Security Administration has registered 17,776 babies named Kareem between 1964 and 2024, spanning 61 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kareem currently holds the #675 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 459 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kareem performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,381 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kareem shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 3,577 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Kareem in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kareem in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 17,776 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.