Nahom is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Naim, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Nahom: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,429 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,429 in 2011; #3,486 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nahom in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,486 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #2,429.
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Nahom: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,429 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 53 (2009).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Nahom, making it the 3,486th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,175 places from #4,661 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 22 boys named Nahom in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,429, reached in 2011. The most boys given the name in a single year was 53, in 2009. For comparison, it was #2,797 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nahom in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 8 babies. In all, 981 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 420 babies named Nahom.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 333 US boys were named Nahom; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Naim (2,697 babies since 1880), Nahum (2,197 babies since 1880) and Naeem (2,120 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nahom in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 33 | #3,486 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,661 |
| 2023 | — | — | 33 | #3,530 |
| 2022 | — | — | 25 | #4,256 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,194 |
| 2020 | — | — | 34 | #3,320 |
| 2019 | — | — | 29 | #3,772 |
| 2018 | — | — | 44 | #2,782 |
| 2017 | — | — | 44 | #2,786 |
| 2016 | — | — | 44 | #2,756 |
| 2015 | — | — | 43 | #2,797 |
| 2014 | — | — | 26 | #3,982 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,167 |
| 2012 | — | — | 52 | #2,438 |
| 2011 | — | — | 52 | #2,429 |
| 2010 | — | — | 51 | #2,457 |
| 2009 | — | — | 53 | #2,435 |
| 2008 | — | — | 44 | #2,775 |
| 2007 | — | — | 38 | #3,066 |
| 2006 | — | — | 49 | #2,501 |
| 2005 | — | — | 32 | #3,213 |
| 2004 | — | — | 21 | #4,214 |
| 2003 | — | — | 18 | #4,563 |
| 2002 | — | — | 20 | #4,145 |
| 2001 | — | — | 18 | #4,414 |
| 2000 | — | — | 14 | #5,237 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,338 |
| 1998 | — | — | 15 | #4,572 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,173 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,925 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,548 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,784 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,642 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).