Hykeem
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- hy-KEEM
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Hykeem is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “wise”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Hykeem mean?
Arabic: variant of Hakeem
“wise”
A spelling of Hakim; al-Hakim, the Wise, is one of the 99 names of God in Islam.
Is Hykeem a girl's or a boy's name?
Hykeem is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hykeem in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Hykeem, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 1989, with 23 boys. It first appears in the records in 1985.
Half of all the boys named Hykeem in the US since 1880 were born between 1992 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
Hykeem in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,293 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,813 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,334 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,638 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 8 | #8,980 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,319 |
| 2007 | 7 | #9,782 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,108 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,574 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,048 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,006 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,034 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,036 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,193 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,241 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,179 |
| 1995 | 9 | #5,922 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,531 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,809 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,740 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,806 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,601 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,684 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,420 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,517 |
Names like Hykeem
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hamza, Hakeem, Raheem, Zahir, Ahmad, Muhammad, Amir, Hassan, Samir, Abdullah, Nasir, Mustafa
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo, Safa
Sources
Figures from 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, “Hykeem: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hykeem, updated 20 October 2026.