Hareem
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ha-REEM
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,512 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Hareem is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “sanctuary, sacred place”. In 2025 it ranked 1,512th for girls in the UK (21 babies) and 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Hareem mean?
Arabic: Arabic word used as a name in Pakistani families
“sanctuary, sacred place”
From the same Arabic root as haram, meaning sacred or protected.
Is Hareem a girl's or a boy's name?
Hareem is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 21 girls in the UK and 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hareem in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,512among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 21about 1 in 13,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 78% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 21 girls in the UK were named Hareem, making it the 1,512th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 845th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 105 girls.
Half of all the girls named Hareem in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,454th in England and Wales.
Hareem in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #1,512 |
| 2024 | 25 | #1,356 |
| 2023 | 8 | #3,098 |
| 2022 | 24 | #1,406 |
| 2021 | 25 | #1,353 |
| 2020 | 46 | #845 |
| 2019 | 95 | #482 |
| 2018 | 103 | #474 |
| 2017 | 94 | #508 |
| 2016 | 105 | #460 |
| 2015 | 88 | #534 |
| 2014 | 66 | #665 |
| 2013 | 84 | #546 |
| 2012 | 59 | #742 |
| 2011 | 14 | #2,032 |
| 2010 | 14 | #2,004 |
| 2009 | 9 | #2,695 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 1 | #5,110 |
How popular is Hareem in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 72% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Hareem, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,483rd. Its busiest year was 2012, with 54 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
2025 had fewer girls named Hareem than any year since 2011.
Half of all the girls named Hareem in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Hareem in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,483 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,717 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,917 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,305 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,464 |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,402 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,453 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,420 |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,093 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
Names like Hareem
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hafsa Zainab Hiba Nusaybah Ayah Safaa Rahma Abeeha Huda Ruqayyah Aaliyah
Names related to Hareem
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Hareem: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hareem, updated 20 October 2026.