girls:
6 births since 1982
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
8.3k births since 1964
#1295 (72nd percentile)
overall:
8.3k births since 1964
#2968 (62nd percentile)
The name Raheem is the #2,968 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,265 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 61.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,295 (71.8% percentile) for all time with 8,259 births since 1964. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1982.
Raheem first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for boys and 1982 for girls). Birth data for Raheem is available in 56 out of the 60 years between 1964 and 2023 (56 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Raheem has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Raheem reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 49.7% percentile (ranked #387) with 269 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 269 births per million (ranked 49.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Raheem ranks #759 for boys (16.7% percentile) with 86 births per million, which is 31.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Raheem reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #792) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Raheem".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Raheem. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.2% confident that Raheem is pronounced as ruh-HEEM, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is rah-HEEM, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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