Kareem

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kareem: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kareem: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #436, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#436highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#588
1997	#694
1998	#689
1999	#776
2000	#691
2001	#576
2002	#781
2003	#680
2004	#999
2005	#982
2006	#1168
2007	#782
2008	#916
2009	#809
2010	#832
2011	#812
2012	#765
2013	#954
2014	#684
2015	#601
2016	#726
2017	#709
2018	#675
2019	#707
2020	#535
2021	#704
2022	#500
2023	#508
2024	#468

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #468 among boys in England and Wales, #727 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #588 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2009–2025
Highest recorded position: #436 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2009–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Kareem appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,175 births with the name.

Kareem across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kareem's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#588 (1996)	#468 (2024)	#468 (2024)	29 of 29	1,175 (1996–2024)	85 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#701 (2009)	#436 (2023)	#676 (2025)	6 of 17	29 (2009–2025)	8 (2023)

Kareem by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kareem in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	96	4 of 10	24
2000s	273	10 of 10	27
2010s	447	10 of 10	45
2020sbusiest	359	5 of 10	72

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 72 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2021 and 2022, when recorded births rose by 29, from 49 to 78.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kareem appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #436 in Republic of Ireland in 2023.

Kareem's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#468	85	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#508	77	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#500	78	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#704	49	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#535	70	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#707	47	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#675	51	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#709	49	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#726	47	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#601	61	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#684	48	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#954	30	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#765	42	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#812	37	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#832	35	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#809	35	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#916	29	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#782	34	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1168	18	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#982	22	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#999	20	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#680	32	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#781	24	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#576	33	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#691	26	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#776	21	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#689	24	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#694	23	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#588	28	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#436	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#498	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #436, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 85 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Karanveer · #1345, 27y
Kåre · #21, 75y
Kareema · #2436, 19y
Kareena · #556, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cally · #434, 29y
Emily-Jane · #434, 29y
Ash · #433, 28y
Jadon · #433, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Sachin · #436, 29y
Arina · #435, 24y
Tasnim · #435, 29y
Arielle · #434, 29y

Kareem was ranked #436 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kareem and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kareem without appearing here.

Kareem moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2005 they stood at #982 and #954 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1168 and #1892.
Barry Compare
In 2004 they stood at #999 and #815 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #982 and #1617.
Grant Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1168 and #1048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #782 and #1361.
Gerard Compare
In 2008 they stood at #916 and #867 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #809 and #1358.

Moved ahead of Kareem

Filip Compare
In 2004 they stood at #999 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #982 and #615.
Roman Compare
In 1999 they stood at #776 and #809 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #691 and #401.
Cooper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #680 and #1248 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #999 and #731.
Carter Compare
In 1996 they stood at #588 and #755 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #694 and #476.

Moved the opposite way to Kareem

Espen Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kareem went from #781 to #468 while Espen went from #3225 to #5119.

Moved the same way as Kareem

Aksel Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kareem went from #1168 to #468 and Aksel from #4052 to #1132.
Matheo Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kareem went from #782 to #468 and Matheo from #4333 to #1517.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #436 in Republic of Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Kareem at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kareem across 2 official records

Kareem by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Kareem across 2 official records

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