Naheem
Naheem was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,531 among boys’ names; 502 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naheem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Naheem?
#5,531 among boys’ names, 2025
Naheem rose from #8,501 in 2015 to #5,531 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 10.0 per million.
24 babies in 2009, the peak
Naheem peaked in 2009, when 24 boys were given it, #4,236 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,531 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,584 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,003 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,111 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,483 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,616 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,587 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,703 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,296 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,596 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,501 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,209 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,832 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,891 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,469 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,270 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,236 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,654 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,162 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,996 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,498 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,176 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,575 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,209 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,291 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,965 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,917 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,664 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,948 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,418 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,245 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,468 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,702 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,123 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,989 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,925 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,712 | 5.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,148 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Naheem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naheem 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 Naheem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naheem, and how old are they?
An estimated 494 Americans named Naheem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 329 people named Naheem (5 women and girls, 324 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 402 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.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,239 babies since 1880, Naheem is the fourth most given (8.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 185 babies (9.2%), again the fourth 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 Naheem
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 Naheem and names like it
- Compare Naheem and NahumBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNaheem peaked in 2009.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naheem since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Naheem.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Naheem alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.