Kareem

girls:

198 births since 1972

#5518 (3rd percentile)

boys:

17.4k births since 1964

#868 (81st percentile)

overall:

17.6k births since 1964

#1946 (75th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kareem".

1964 2023 19642023

Key Statistics

Total Births
198
Peak Births
23
Peak Year
1972
First Recorded
1972
Peak Percentile
2.4%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#725
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
17,368
Peak Births
459
Peak Year
1980
First Recorded
1964
Peak Percentile
49.4%
Current Percentile
42.2%
Peak Rank
#343
Current Rank
#527
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Kareem

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kareem. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 63.0% confident that Kareem is pronounced as kuh-REEM. The next most likely pronunciation is ker-EEM, at 15.2% confidence.

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ker-EEM (2 syllables)
Verified
15.2% confidence
K ER0 IY1 M

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Kareem. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Kareem, please vote using the thumbs up button.

keh-REEM (2 syllables)
2 names 420 births
K EH0 R IY1 M

Names with this pronunciation:

kuh-REHM (2 syllables)
3 names 382 births
K AH0 R EH1 M

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K AH0 R IY1 M) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.