Lakeem

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Lakeem by the numbers

Lakeem was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 24 babies in 1990, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Lakeem

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lakeem. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Lakerone who lives by a lake6 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Lateefgentle, kind, subtle9 in the US (2017)
  • Laken237 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Lakeem

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