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Shaheem

Shaheem is a boy's name that peaked in 1997, when it was the 1,933rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 750 Shaheems are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Shaheem

By the numbers

Total US births
767
Estimated living today
750
Median age today
24
Peak year
1997
Best rank
1,933rd
Rank in 2025
10,695th
First recorded
1976

How old the living Shaheems are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 767 babies given the name since 1976, about 750 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 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 Shaheem is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Shaheem is most concentrated in New York (10.0×).

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

Names of 1997

The most popular boys’ names the year Shaheem peaked:

All the names of 1997

Shaheem elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Shaheem 49 3,011th
France boys Shaheem 5 3,804th

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.

Related names

Shaheem 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.