Rakeem
#3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births
- Peak · boys
- 1992 · 183 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,182since 1975
Rakeem over time
Rank among boys' names. Rakeem has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,658 | 30 |
| 2024 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2023 | #3,117 | 39 |
| 2022 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 2021 | #2,862 | 43 |
| 2020 | #2,846 | 42 |
| 2019 | #3,103 | 38 |
| 2018 | #3,106 | 37 |
| 2017 | #3,312 | 34 |
| 2016 | #2,935 | 40 |
| 2015 | #3,513 | 31 |
| 2014 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #3,405 | 31 |
| 2012 | #3,059 | 37 |
| 2011 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #4,099 | 24 |
| 2009 | #3,919 | 26 |
| 2008 | #3,486 | 31 |
| 2007 | #4,127 | 24 |
| 2006 | #4,520 | 20 |
| 2005 | #3,172 | 32 |
| 2004 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #3,670 | 23 |
| 2001 | #2,797 | 33 |
| 2000 | #2,175 | 46 |
| 1999 | #2,023 | 47 |
| 1998 | #1,558 | 68 |
| 1997 | #1,628 | 62 |
| 1996 | #1,321 | 82 |
| 1995 | #970 | 130 |
| 1994 | #1,053 | 112 |
| 1993 | #940 | 131 |
| 1992 | #770 | 183 |
| 1991 | #824 | 158 |
| 1990 | #937 | 121 |
| 1989 | #902 | 126 |
| 1988 | #1,404 | 55 |
| 1987 | #2,057 | 29 |
| 1986 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #3,215 | 12 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rakeem! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1977, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Rakeem is popular in 1992
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#219 · 1 in 1,328
- Mississippi#336 · 1 in 2,048
- Virginia#364 · 1 in 3,004
- North Carolina#367 · 1 in 3,095
- Alabama#394 · 1 in 3,294
Best ever in a state: #207 in District of Columbia, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #219 | 17 | 1 in 1,328 |
| Mississippi | #336 | 8 | 1 in 2,048 |
| Virginia | #364 | 14 | 1 in 3,004 |
| North Carolina | #367 | 15 | 1 in 3,095 |
| Alabama | #394 | 8 | 1 in 3,294 |
| Georgia | #425 | 14 | 1 in 3,483 |
| Pennsylvania | #475 | 13 | 1 in 5,990 |
| Florida | #573 | 15 | 1 in 5,834 |
| Maryland | #573 | 5 | 1 in 6,374 |
| New Jersey | #663 | 6 | 1 in 8,778 |
| Illinois | #799 | 8 | 1 in 10,778 |
| New York | #855 | 11 | 1 in 12,006 |
| California | #1,746 | 7 | 1 in 40,618 |
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See more about Rakeem
- 1,043 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #3,658)
- 812 spots since 2020 (#2,846 → #3,658)
- 145 spots since 2015 (#3,513 → #3,658)
- Biggest jump: 502 spots in 1989 (#1,404 → #902)
- Biggest drop: 351 spots in 1996 (#970 → #1,321)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1992 at #770 (183 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1989–1993
- Highest: 1 in 10,915 boys born in 1992 were named Rakeem (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.1% of all boys named Rakeem (1,094) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 28 | #3,215 (1978) | #3,941 |
| 1980s | 275 | #902 (1989) | #3,573 |
| 1990s | 1,094 | #770 (1992) | #1,202 |
| 2000s | 266 | #2,175 (2000) | #3,791 |
| 2010s | 319 | #2,935 (2016) | #3,489 |
| 2020s | 200 | #2,846 (2020) | #3,561 |
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.
Rakeem in 1992
Top boys' names in 1992
More about 1992
boys
1,997,409 boys got a published name in 1992; 1 in 10,915 of them was named Rakeem, which outranked 92.2% of the 9,820 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).