Rakeem
Rakeem was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,732 among boys’ names; 2,182 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,120 Americans named Rakeem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 17 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rakeem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rakeem?
#3,732 among boys’ names, 2025
Rakeem fell from #3,568 in 2015 to #3,732 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 16.2 to 17.6 per million.
183 babies in 1992, the peak
Rakeem peaked in 1992, when 183 boys were given it, #771 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,732 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,834 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,162 | 22.8 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,267 | 14.3 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,900 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 42 | #2,877 | 24.3 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,134 | 21.2 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,152 | 20.4 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,361 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,969 | 21.1 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #3,568 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,227 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,476 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,099 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,322 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,204 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 26 | #4,009 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,546 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,218 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,640 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,216 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,189 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,204 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,744 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,844 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 46 | #2,183 | 23.4 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,049 | 24.5 |
| 1998 | 68 | #1,567 | 35.6 |
| 1997 | 62 | #1,640 | 32.9 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,329 | 43.3 |
| 1995 | 130 | #972 | 68.3 |
| 1994 | 112 | #1,053 | 58.0 |
| 1993 | 131 | #939 | 66.8 |
| 1992 | 183 | #771 | 91.6 |
| 1991 | 158 | #821 | 78.2 |
| 1990 | 121 | #941 | 58.9 |
| 1989 | 126 | #902 | 63.0 |
| 1988 | 55 | #1,411 | 28.7 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,097 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,397 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,597 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,625 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,043 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,168 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,028 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #4,058 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 10 | #4,010 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,352 | 7.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,300 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rakeem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rakeem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rakeem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rakeem, and how old are they?
2,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,182 Americans ever recorded as Rakeem. The median Rakeem alive today is 31 years old; half are between 17 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,340 people named Rakeem (8 women and girls, 1,332 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,948 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 35 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,130 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 517 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 432 |
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 Rakeem born?
The states with the most babies named Rakeem are Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 149 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 136 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| South Carolina | 124 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| New York | 94 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 72 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 69 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 61 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 45 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 43 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 37 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Rakeem is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rakeem is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1975 it was given 4.1 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 Rakeem 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,825 babies since 1880, Rakeem is the most given (57% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 43 babies (70%), 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 Rakeem
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 Rakeem and names like it
- Compare Rakeem and RakimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRakeem peaked in 1992.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rakeem since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Rakeem.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rakeem alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.