boys:
2.6k births since 1988
#2478 (46th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1988
#5257 (32nd percentile)
The name Kadeem is the #5,257 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,597 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 32.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,478 (45.9% percentile) for all time with 2,597 births since 1988.
Kadeem first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (first recorded for boys in 1988).
For boys, Kadeem reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 41.6% percentile (ranked #444) with 184 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 184 births per million (ranked 41.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kadeem ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 4.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kadeem".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kadeem. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.7% confident that Kadeem is pronounced as kuh-DEEM, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-DEEM, at 26.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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