Taheem
Taheem was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,659 among boys’ names; 295 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 Taheem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taheem?
#13,659 among boys’ names, 2025
Taheem fell from #10,483 in 2015 to #13,659 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.7 to 2.9 per million.
16 babies in 1991, the peak
Taheem peaked in 1991, when 16 boys were given it, #3,791 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,659 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,899 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,632 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,712 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,655 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,447 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,784 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,552 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,065 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,561 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #10,483 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,264 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,543 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,587 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,532 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,507 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,295 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,892 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,453 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,288 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,266 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,761 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,582 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,458 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,117 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,480 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #10,137 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,894 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,160 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,295 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,791 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,750 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,152 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,333 | 3.7 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,244 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Taheem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taheem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taheem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taheem, and how old are they?
An estimated 289 Americans named Taheem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 211 people named Taheem (0 women and girls, 211 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 249 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 793 babies since 1880, Taheem is the second most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 24 babies (21%), the third 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 Taheem
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 Taheem and names like it
- Compare Taheem and TameemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTaheem peaked in 1991.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taheem since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Taheem.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Taheem alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.