Shakeem is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Shakeem in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Shakeem in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Shakeem by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Shakeem ranks at #6,237. That means there are 6,236 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shakeem.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Shakeem. Boys named Shakeem have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,410 Shakeem ranked higher than ever before in 1994. By comparison, there have been 98 years in which the first name Shakeem has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2009. In general, parents name their sons Shakeem only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shakeem was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Shakeem continues to be a precious jewel: 14 newborns were named Shakeem that year, ranking #5,277 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Shakeem, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Shakeem. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 277 Americans who bear this name. And these 277 men and boys named Shakeem live in no more than 6 different states, including for example Florida, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. In the other 43 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Shakeem lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Shakeem and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Shakeem relative to its male population is New York. And even there, only one male in 61,375 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Shakeem.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With seven letters, the name Shakeem has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Shakeem 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 Shakeem, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Koala
Elephant
Elephant
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shakeem
Shakeem
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
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.
S
H
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. Shakeem sounds like this:
