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Naeem

Naeem is a boy's name that peaked in 2006, when it was the 1,893rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,304th. About 2,100 Naeems are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Naeem

By the numbers

Total US births
2,120
Estimated living today
2,100
Median age today
18
Peak year
2006
Best rank
1,893rd
Rank in 2025
2,304th
First recorded
1966

How old the living Naeems are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,120 babies given the name since 1966, about 2,100 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Naeem is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Naeem is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (6.1×), New Jersey (5.5×), New York (3.5×), Georgia (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2006

The most popular boys’ names the year Naeem peaked:

All the names of 2006

Naeem elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Naeem 480 629th
France boys Naeem 35 5,901st
Scotland boys Naeem 3 305th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Naeem among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Naeem 8 15
Finland girls Naeem 5

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Naeem lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 317 men called Naeem were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Barcelona Naeem 137 0.047 1,176
Gipuzkoa Naeem 15 0.042 1,181
Araba/Álava Naeem 5 0.030 1,658
Lleida Naeem 6 0.025 2,057
Zaragoza Naeem 12 0.024 2,004
Balears, Illes Naeem 11 0.018 2,901

Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Naeem against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.