Kadeem
Kadeem is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. Its best rank was 501st, in 1991.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1991391 births
- Best rank
- #501in 1991
- Since 1988
- 2,620people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,620 boys have been named Kadeem in the United States since 1988, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 391 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 1990s alone account for 68%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1991, its biggest year
Kadeem was the 501st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1991 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Kadeem
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tevinpeak 1992
- Malepeak 1991
- Shaquillepeak 1993
- Denzellpeak 1992
- Khirypeak 1990
- Rakeempeak 1992
- Keiferpeak 1991
- Dijonpeak 1991
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.