Aleem
#8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 565since 1974
Aleem over time
Rank among boys' names. Aleem has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #5,776 | 15 |
| 2020 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #5,320 | 17 |
| 2017 | #5,788 | 15 |
| 2016 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #6,001 | 14 |
| 2011 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | #6,520 | 11 |
| 2003 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #4,246 | 15 |
| 1996 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #3,070 | 15 |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #3,256 | 13 |
| 1979 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
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| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aleem! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Aleem is popular in 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#1,003 · 1 in 9,959
Best ever in a state: #626 in Pennsylvania, 1987.
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| Pennsylvania | #1,003 | 6 | 1 in 9,959 |
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See more about Aleem
- 1,651 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #8,243)
- 3,545 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #8,243)
- 3,185 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #8,243)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 1985 at #3,070 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 86,304 boys born in 2020 were named Aleem (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,070 in 1985, was only 1 in 123,214 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.4% of all boys named Aleem (155) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 30 | #3,606 (1977) | #4,448 |
| 1980s | 89 | #3,070 (1985) | #4,779 |
| 1990s | 106 | #4,246 (1997) | #5,377 |
| 2000s | 113 | #4,582 (2009) | #6,374 |
| 2010s | 155 | #4,392 (2014) | #5,998 |
| 2020s | 72 | #4,698 (2020) | #7,420 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aleem in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
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1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 111,269 of them was named Aleem, which outranked 63.2% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,981Zayon18
- #4,981Zebulun18
- #4,981Zeek18
- #5,171Aleem17
- #5,171Adama17
- #5,171Adrion17
- #5,171Ananias17
- #5,404Aadam16
- #5,404Aarin16
- #5,404Abigail16
Tied with 232 names at #5,171; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.