How rare is the name Akeem?

5,312 people in the United States have the first name Akeem, about 1 in 56,858. It ranks #3,754 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

AKEEM

#3,754

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,312
About
1 in 56,858
This common or more
83%
Who bears it

Of the 5,312 people named Akeem, 89.5% reported their origin as Black, 4.4% as two or more races and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Akeem peaked in 1990, when 570 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19722025
Peak year
1990
Births that year
570
In 2025*
71 ▼88%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 6,825 babies have been given the name since 1972. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Akeem by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,526. The largest share of babies named Akeem, 56.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#11,17258
1980s#1,5441,796
1990s#1,5262,372
2000s#4,197722
2010s#3,2291,159
2020s#3,150718
Generation X 1965–801%
Millennials 1981–9656.9%
Generation Z 1997–1218.6%
2013 and later23.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Akeem is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Akeem has been most common in South Carolina (4.3×), Florida (3.6×), and Georgia (3×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.46×).

5,127 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Akeem

#3,752 Cassius · 5,324#3,752 Martine · 5,324#3,755 Jonna · 5,311#3,756 Ashok · 5,310

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Akeem, most common first.

#37,821 Akeen · 205#44,535 Akeema · 155#48,328 Akiem · 132

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