Raheem
Raheem was given to 125 boys in 2025, #1,442 among boys’ names; 8,530 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,250 Americans named Raheem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 14 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raheem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raheem?
#1,442 among boys’ names, 2025
Raheem fell from #1,215 in 2015 to #1,442 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 79.3 to 73.2 per million.
556 babies in 1993, the peak
Raheem peaked in 1993, when 556 boys were given it, #417 among boys’ names. The 125 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 125 | #1,442 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 138 | #1,369 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 157 | #1,243 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 158 | #1,248 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 156 | #1,236 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 179 | #1,107 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 179 | #1,106 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 170 | #1,137 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 187 | #1,062 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 158 | #1,200 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 152 | #1,215 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 150 | #1,223 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 133 | #1,302 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 128 | #1,335 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 131 | #1,308 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 120 | #1,396 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 121 | #1,408 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 139 | #1,258 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 116 | #1,410 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 120 | #1,356 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,458 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 101 | #1,409 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,216 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 147 | #1,046 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 143 | #1,032 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 169 | #914 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 183 | #828 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 221 | #736 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 223 | #709 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 278 | #625 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 321 | #570 | 0.17 |
| 1994 | 384 | #515 | 0.20 |
| 1993 | 556 | #417 | 0.28 |
| 1992 | 395 | #509 | 0.20 |
| 1991 | 217 | #684 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 174 | #768 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 156 | #795 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 105 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 112 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 81 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 89 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 83 | #981 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 121 | #799 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 127 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 154 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 156 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 117 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 108 | #824 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 148 | #699 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 67 | #1,018 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 69 | #992 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,212 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,161 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 39 | #1,358 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,098 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,479 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,818 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,474 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Raheem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raheem has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 58 years of records.
Girls and boys named Raheem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raheem, and how old are they?
8,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 8,530 Americans ever recorded as Raheem. The median Raheem alive today is 29 years old; half are between 14 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 5,679 people named Raheem (36 women and girls, 5,643 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,466 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 765 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,030 |
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 Raheem born?
The states with the most babies named Raheem are Florida, Texas and Virginia, with 41% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 14 | #997 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,537 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 10 | #716 | 1.4× |
| New York | 8 | #1,377 | 2.2× |
| California | 6 | #2,399 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,225 | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 6 | #785 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,083 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,147 | 3.0× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,425 | 1.6× |
Where Raheem is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raheem is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1964 it was given 3.0 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 Raheem 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 12,139 babies since 1880, Raheem is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 125 of their 210 babies (60%), 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 Raheem
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 Raheem and names like it
- Compare Raheem and RahimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRaheem peaked in 1993.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raheem since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Raheem.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Raheem alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.