Meaning not yet researched.
Naim: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 97 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,204 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,204 in 1976; #1,694 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Naim in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,694 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #1,204.
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Naim: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 97 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,204 in 1976 · most boys in one year: 135 (2023).
In 2025, 97 US boys were named Naim, making it the 1,694th most common boys’ name of the year, down 117 places from #1,577 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 110 boys named Naim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,204, reached in 1976. The most boys given the name in a single year was 135, in 2023. For comparison, it was #2,845 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Naim in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 7 babies. In all, 2,697 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 634 babies named Naim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 823 US boys were named Naim; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 135. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,609 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Naim ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #904 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nahum (2,197 babies since 1880) and Naeem (2,120 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nam, Nahom and Naheim 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: Nam (1,404), Nahom (981), Naheim (142), Nahim (131), Nahiem (108), Naome (107), Naiem (58), Naiim (36), Name (34), Naum (17), Naieem (16), Naiome (5), and more.
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 Naim 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 6 | #904 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,108 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,176 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,283 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,345 | #2,192 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,377 | #838 |
| New York | 7 | #1,518 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 97 | #1,694 |
| 2024 | — | — | 110 | #1,577 |
| 2023 | — | — | 135 | #1,384 |
| 2022 | — | — | 80 | #1,944 |
| 2021 | — | — | 94 | #1,732 |
| 2020 | — | — | 71 | #2,012 |
| 2019 | — | — | 80 | #1,881 |
| 2018 | — | — | 58 | #2,320 |
| 2017 | — | — | 53 | #2,439 |
| 2016 | — | — | 45 | #2,714 |
| 2015 | — | — | 42 | #2,845 |
| 2014 | — | — | 41 | #2,873 |
| 2013 | — | — | 63 | #2,132 |
| 2012 | — | — | 56 | #2,317 |
| 2011 | — | — | 45 | #2,691 |
| 2010 | — | — | 55 | #2,347 |
| 2009 | — | — | 72 | #1,969 |
| 2008 | — | — | 69 | #2,036 |
| 2007 | — | — | 66 | #2,086 |
| 2006 | — | — | 60 | #2,165 |
| 2005 | — | — | 60 | #2,073 |
| 2004 | — | — | 61 | #1,985 |
| 2003 | — | — | 54 | #2,095 |
| 2002 | — | — | 67 | #1,737 |
| 2001 | — | — | 73 | #1,624 |
| 2000 | — | — | 52 | #1,989 |
| 1999 | — | — | 50 | #1,956 |
| 1998 | — | — | 58 | #1,761 |
| 1997 | — | — | 63 | #1,622 |
| 1996 | — | — | 65 | #1,546 |
| 1995 | — | — | 49 | #1,796 |
| 1994 | — | — | 41 | #2,033 |
| 1993 | — | — | 42 | #1,957 |
| 1992 | — | — | 43 | #1,900 |
| 1991 | — | — | 31 | #2,332 |
| 1990 | — | — | 25 | #2,675 |
| 1989 | — | — | 23 | #2,755 |
| 1988 | — | — | 20 | #2,821 |
| 1987 | — | — | 27 | #2,202 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,659 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,408 |
| 1984 | — | — | 31 | #1,823 |
| 1983 | — | — | 29 | #1,889 |
| 1982 | — | — | 35 | #1,693 |
| 1981 | — | — | 29 | #1,932 |
| 1980 | — | — | 37 | #1,611 |
| 1979 | — | — | 33 | #1,740 |
| 1978 | — | — | 49 | #1,296 |
| 1977 | — | — | 36 | #1,564 |
| 1976 | — | — | 52 | #1,204 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #3,024 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #4,076 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,363 |
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).