Raheem

maleStatistical record

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

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

Raheem: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #406 in 2001, and it stood at #613 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#406highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#458
1997	#462
1998	#477
1999	#697
2000	#430
2001	#406
2002	#411
2003	#490
2004	#443
2005	#502
2006	#504
2007	#584
2008	#604
2009	#535
2010	#625
2011	#626
2012	#588
2013	#589
2014	#507
2015	#506
2016	#525
2017	#621
2018	#465
2019	#481
2020	#551
2021	#539
2022	#531
2023	#447
2024	#613

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

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

In 2024: #613 among boys in England and Wales, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #458 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 recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #406 among boys in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #613 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Raheem 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 1,743 births with the name.

Raheem 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.

Raheem'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	#458 (1996)	#406 (2001)	#613 (2024)	29 of 29	1,743 (1996–2024)	89 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#749 (2018)	#749 (2018)	#785 (2024)	3 of 7	9 (2018–2024)	3 (2018)

Raheem 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 Raheem in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	148	4 of 10	37
2000s	551	10 of 10	55
2010s	681	10 of 10	68
2020sbusiest	363	5 of 10	73

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 73 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2017 and 2018, when recorded births rose by 29, from 58 to 87.

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

Raheem 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #406 in England and Wales in 2001.

Raheem'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	#613	62	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#447	89	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#531	73	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#539	72	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#551	67	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#481	83	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#465	87	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#621	58	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#525	74	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#506	76	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#507	77	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#589	60	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#588	60	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#626	54	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#625	52	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#535	63	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#604	52	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#584	51	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#504	60	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#502	55	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#443	61	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#490	49	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#411	55	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#406	56	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#430	49	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#697	24	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#477	41	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#462	42	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#458	41	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #406, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 89 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 22 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.

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Rahel · #342, 41y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Elissa · #407, 30y
Kristel · #407, 33y
Augustus · #404, 29y
Marcos · #404, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Akshay · #406, 29y
Orion · #406, 29y
Chay · #407, 28y
Kallie · #407, 29y

Raheem was ranked #406 in England and Wales · Boys in 2001. 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.

Raheem 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 Raheem without appearing here.

Raheem moved ahead of

Ashleigh Compare
In 1999 they stood at #697 and #621 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #430 and #881.
Graham Compare
In 1999 they stood at #697 and #516 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #430 and #710.
Dean Compare
In 2017 they stood at #621 and #537 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #465 and #675.
Gregory Compare
In 2013 they stood at #589 and #581 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #507 and #695.

Moved ahead of Raheem

Finley Compare
In 1997 they stood at #462 and #484 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #477 and #182.
Mathias Compare
In 2023 they stood at #447 and #500 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #613 and #406.
Denis Compare
In 2009 they stood at #535 and #596 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #625 and #470.
Lachlan Compare
In 2014 they stood at #507 and #558 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #506 and #363.

Moved the same way as Raheem

Espen Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raheem went from #411 to #613 and Espen from #3225 to #5119.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #406 in England and Wales in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Raheem across 2 official records

Raheem by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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