Girls' name · since 1987
Nasheema
Nasheema has 23 recorded births since 1987 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1994 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #44,281 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 23
- born since 1987
- 1990s
- peak decade
Nasheema is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 23 have been recorded since 1987.
Nasheema has 23 recorded births among girls since 1987, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1987 to 1996.
- #44,281 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 23 born since 1987
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nasheema ranks #44,281 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 23 born since 1987, peaking in the 1990s.
- #44,281 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 23
- born since 1987
- 1990s
- peak decade
Nasheema's 23 recorded births place it above 38.51% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Nasheema's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Nasheema's full recorded timeline at 1994, 52% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 48% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1993, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1994 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Nasheema popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1987–1996
- Peak year (1994)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 1996.
23 total births across 10 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1994 with 7 births in a single year.
Nasheema by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (17 births, 74% of the file).
1990s was Nasheema's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 74% of all-time use.
Nasheema births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 6
1980s
6 births
- 1990s
1990s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 17 births (74% of all-time use).
Nasheema decade highlights
- Peak decade 17 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
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Two nationwide peer axes for Nasheema: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1994)
Similar record span (~9 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1987–1996 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Nasheema draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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