Akeem
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Akeem is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria. In Guyana it is the 24th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A male given name from Arabic, variant of Hakim.
- GYGuyana1 in 922◐
- NGNigeria1 in 1.4K
- THThailand1 in 3.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 284 ●
- 1 in 922 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
138K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Akom in MY Malaysia, ZA South Africa, อาคม in TH Thailand and Akham in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
A male given name from Arabic, variant of Hakim.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #110 | 53,583 | 70K rec. | — | — | Akeem | 96 |
| TH Thailand | #510 | 37,747 | 20K rec. | — | #808,213 | อาคม | 96 |
| US United States | — | 5,286 | 43K rec. | 1 in 63K | 5.3K | Akeem | 284 |
| FR France | — | 3,820△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 18K | 3.8K | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,386 | 829 rec. | — | listed | Akeem | 95 |
| GY Guyana | #24 | 814 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 922 | 814 | Akeem | 7 |
| JM Jamaica | #155 | 531 | 562 rec. | — | — | Akeem | 15 |
| CA Canada | — | 387 | 230 rec. | — | 2 | Akeem | 50 |
| KE Kenya | — | 345 | 2 rec. | — | — | Akeem | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 313△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 676K | 411 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 263△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 146K | 263 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | 219 | 202 rec. | — | 1 | Akeem | 26 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English99K78%
- Swahili7.6K6%
- Spanish3.8K3%
- Hindi3.2K3%
- Urdu2.7K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 98,847 | 78% |
| Swahili | 7,593 | 6% |
| Spanish | 3,812 | 3% |
| Hindi | 3,206 | 3% |
| Urdu | 2,684 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 8 |
| 1977 | 14 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 32 |
| 1983 | 192 |
| 1984 | 255 |
| 1985 | 159 |
| 1986 | 283 |
| 1987 | 178 |
| 1988 | 221 |
| 1989 | 459 |
| 1990 | 570 |
| 1991 | 419 |
| 1992 | 325 |
| 1993 | 242 |
| 1994 | 222 |
| 1995 | 174 |
| 1996 | 146 |
| 1997 | 116 |
| 1998 | 97 |
| 1999 | 61 |
| 2000 | 77 |
| 2001 | 63 |
| 2002 | 65 |
| 2003 | 56 |
| 2004 | 66 |
| 2005 | 55 |
| 2006 | 85 |
| 2007 | 70 |
| 2008 | 89 |
| 2009 | 96 |
| 2010 | 89 |
| 2011 | 80 |
| 2012 | 105 |
| 2013 | 98 |
| 2014 | 92 |
| 2015 | 116 |
| 2016 | 137 |
| 2017 | 156 |
| 2018 | 147 |
| 2019 | 139 |
| 2020 | 145 |
| 2021 | 143 |
| 2022 | 123 |
| 2023 | 113 |
| 2024 | 123 |
| 2025 | 71 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 54 years between 1972–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Akeem Scottb. 1983USAmerican basketball player
- Akeem Dentb. 1987USAmerican football player
- Troy Gillenwaterb. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1988)
- Akeem Latifub. 1989NGNigerian footballer
- Akeem Ayersb. 1989USAmerican football player (born 1989)
- Dever Orgillb. 1990JMnot in their usual nameJamaican association football player
- Akeem van Flodropb. 1991DEactor
- Akeem Haynesb. 1992CAOlympic runner
- Akeem Bloomfieldb. 1997JMJamaican sprinter
- AJ Johnsonb. 2004USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 38 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 157 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Akeem?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Akeem (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Akeem have the most bearers?
- Akeem is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled akeem.
- Where is Akeem most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Akeem is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 922 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Akeem compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Akeem is the 110th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Akeem a male or female name?
- Akeem is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Akeem mean?
- Recorded meaning: A male given name from Arabic, variant of Hakim.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Akeem” — the 110th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.