Rakeem is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Rakeem is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Rakeem. In the SmartGenius ranking, Rakeem is #2,889 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rakeem.
Rakeem is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Rakeem - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 716 in 1992. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this boys' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Rakeem really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rakeem was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
25 babies were named Rakeem in 2022 - that's 1 in 6,457,040 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Rakeem ranked 3,639 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds of having a man or boy named Rakeem in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Rakeem is registered in 17 states, among which are Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Rakeem live in South Carolina, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 18,686 men and boys in South Carolina for their name before you meet one who answers with Rakeem.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Rakeem is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Rakeem and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rakeem, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Koala
Elephant
Elephant
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rakeem
Rakeem
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
K
E
E
M
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
A
K
E
E
M
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rakeem sounds like this:
