Meaning not yet researched.
Nahum: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 58 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,734 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,734 in 2005; #2,380 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nahum in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,380 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #1,734.
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Nahum: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 58 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,734 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 85 (2007).
In 2025, 58 US boys were named Nahum, making it the 2,380th most common boys’ name of the year, down 101 places from #2,279 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 63 boys named Nahum in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,734, reached in 2005. The most boys given the name in a single year was 85, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,158 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nahum in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 7 babies. In all, 2,197 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 667 babies named Nahum.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 599 US boys were named Nahum; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,450 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nahum ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #1,051 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Naim (2,697 babies since 1880) and Naeem (2,120 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Naheem, Nachum and Nahome are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Naheem (502), Nachum (285), Nahome (77), Nagham (6).
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 Nahum in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 6 | #1,051 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #1,623 | #1,138 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,776 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,940 | #1,303 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 58 | #2,380 |
| 2024 | — | — | 63 | #2,279 |
| 2023 | — | — | 71 | #2,088 |
| 2022 | — | — | 48 | #2,743 |
| 2021 | — | — | 55 | #2,452 |
| 2020 | — | — | 44 | #2,789 |
| 2019 | — | — | 65 | #2,183 |
| 2018 | — | — | 66 | #2,132 |
| 2017 | — | — | 71 | #2,011 |
| 2016 | — | — | 58 | #2,296 |
| 2015 | — | — | 64 | #2,158 |
| 2014 | — | — | 67 | #2,091 |
| 2013 | — | — | 67 | #2,036 |
| 2012 | — | — | 74 | #1,934 |
| 2011 | — | — | 76 | #1,855 |
| 2010 | — | — | 59 | #2,229 |
| 2009 | — | — | 73 | #1,954 |
| 2008 | — | — | 82 | #1,810 |
| 2007 | — | — | 85 | #1,756 |
| 2006 | — | — | 79 | #1,764 |
| 2005 | — | — | 77 | #1,734 |
| 2004 | — | — | 59 | #2,044 |
| 2003 | — | — | 61 | #1,925 |
| 2002 | — | — | 50 | #2,143 |
| 2001 | — | — | 38 | #2,551 |
| 2000 | — | — | 44 | #2,242 |
| 1999 | — | — | 45 | #2,129 |
| 1998 | — | — | 38 | #2,339 |
| 1997 | — | — | 25 | #3,037 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,893 |
| 1995 | — | — | 31 | #2,480 |
| 1994 | — | — | 39 | #2,108 |
| 1993 | — | — | 17 | #3,768 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,560 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,191 |
| 1990 | — | — | 24 | #2,753 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,966 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,366 |
| 1987 | — | — | 16 | #3,161 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,590 |
| 1985 | — | — | 12 | #3,731 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,395 |
| 1983 | — | — | 14 | #3,180 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,473 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,353 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,809 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,737 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,432 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,145 |
| 1976 | — | — | 13 | #3,040 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,028 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,498 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,362 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,853 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,243 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,495 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,676 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,107 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,602 |
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).