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Shaheem

Gender
Boy
Say it
sha-HEEM
US rank, 2025
#10,690 for boys

Shaheem is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).

Where does Shaheem come from?

Uncertain

Is Shaheem a girl's or a boy's name?

Shaheem is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Shaheem in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 6 boys.

2009Busiest: 6 in 20092022
Shaheem in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20223#5,017
20210–
20200–
20190–
20186#3,162
20174#4,161
20163#5,015
20154#4,086
20145#3,529
20135#3,466
20123#4,999
20116#3,038
20104#4,026
20096#2,970

How popular is Shaheem in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,690among boys
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 280,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Shaheem, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 1997, with 47 boys. It first appears in the records in 1976.

Half of all the boys named Shaheem in the US since 1880 were born between 1994 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

1976Busiest: 47 in 19972025
Shaheem in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20256#10,690
20245#12,341
202315#5,922
202212#6,822
20218#8,820
20206#10,599
201913#6,401
201810#7,613
201716#5,522
201617#5,314
201519#4,888
201411#7,043
20137#9,650
201218#5,030
201112#6,572
201025#3,993
200924#4,158
20087#9,864
200720#4,638
200614#5,777
200524#3,811
200415#5,241
200318#4,421
200229#3,091
200134#2,737
200028#3,069
199924#3,275
199824#3,187
199747#1,930
199627#2,742
199531#2,439
199436#2,214
199318#3,495
199212#4,556
199115#3,806
199019#3,160
198914#3,803
198810#4,445
19875#6,945
19869#4,453
19857#5,142
19848#4,549
19835#6,234
198210#3,964
19817#4,959
19806#5,523
19796#5,353
19780–
19777#4,580
19767#4,416

Names like Shaheem

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Shaheem

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, “Shaheem: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shaheem, updated 20 October 2026.