Naeem
Naeem was given to 60 boys in 2025, #2,325 among boys’ names; 2,120 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,070 Americans named Naeem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naeem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Naeem?
#2,325 among boys’ names, 2025
Naeem rose from #2,513 in 2015 to #2,325 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 26.1 to 35.1 per million.
71 babies in 2006, the peak
Naeem peaked in 2006, when 71 boys were given it, #1,909 among boys’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,325 | 35.1 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,126 | 40.6 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,355 | 34.5 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,229 | 37.2 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,424 | 32.0 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,278 | 34.8 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,410 | 31.2 |
| 2018 | 54 | #2,435 | 29.7 |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,148 | 34.6 |
| 2016 | 51 | #2,504 | 26.9 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #2,513 | 26.1 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,392 | 28.1 |
| 2013 | 54 | #2,353 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,255 | 30.6 |
| 2011 | 57 | #2,276 | 30.0 |
| 2010 | 53 | #2,386 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,433 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 53 | #2,422 | 26.0 |
| 2007 | 57 | #2,295 | 27.5 |
| 2006 | 71 | #1,909 | 34.5 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,348 | 25.0 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,772 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 39 | #2,601 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,990 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,409 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 44 | #2,237 | 22.4 |
| 1999 | 41 | #2,251 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,829 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 35 | #2,377 | 18.6 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,803 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,237 | 18.9 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,154 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,619 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 44 | #1,865 | 22.0 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,270 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 37 | #2,033 | 18.0 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,959 | 10.5 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,564 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,156 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,377 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,039 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,392 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,252 | 12.8 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,094 | 14.3 |
| 1981 | 27 | #2,024 | 15.1 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,036 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 39 | #1,522 | 22.7 |
| 1978 | 36 | #1,588 | 21.9 |
| 1977 | 29 | #1,814 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,913 | 16.6 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,183 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,474 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,952 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,794 | 3.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,552 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,347 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Naeem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naeem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Naeem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naeem, and how old are they?
2,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,120 Americans ever recorded as Naeem. The median Naeem alive today is 19 years old; half are between 9 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 2,266 people named Naeem (58 women and girls, 2,208 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,727 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 178 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 401 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 738 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 748 |
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 Naeem born?
The states with the most babies named Naeem are New York, California and Virginia, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | #1,517 | 1.8× |
| California | 7 | #2,136 | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,206 | 0.5× |
Where Naeem is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Naeem is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1966 it was given 3.6 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 Naeem 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,174 babies since 1880, Naeem is the third most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 290 babies (21%), 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 Naeem
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 Naeem and names like it
- Compare Naeem and NaimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNaeem peaked in 2006.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naeem since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Naeem.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Naeem alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.