Meaning not yet researched.
Nechama: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 122 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,553 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,553 in 2022; #1,690 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nechama in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,690 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,553.
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Nechama: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 122 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,553 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 138 (2022).
In 2025, 122 US girls were named Nechama, making it the 1,690th most common girls’ name of the year, down 116 places from #1,574 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 135 girls named Nechama in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,553, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 138. For comparison, it was #1,775 in 2015 and #4,614 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nechama in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 7 babies. In all, 4,030 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,030 babies named Nechama.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,190 US girls were named Nechama; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 138. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,174 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nechama ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #155 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Nechuma 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nechuma (167).
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 Nechama in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 52 | #155 | #144 |
| New York | 46 | #376 | #391 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,557 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 122 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 2024 | 135 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 2023 | 135 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 2022 | 138 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 2020 | 121 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 2019 | 103 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 2017 | 79 | #2,334 | — | — |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 2015 | 118 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 2014 | 111 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 2013 | 102 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 2011 | 108 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 2010 | 95 | #2,088 | — | — |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 2008 | 100 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 2007 | 89 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 2006 | 86 | #2,245 | — | — |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 2003 | 75 | #2,274 | — | — |
| 2002 | 69 | #2,345 | — | — |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 2000 | 83 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,299 | — | — |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 1996 | 63 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,402 | — | — |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,151 | — | — |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,555 | — | — |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,511 | — | — |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,847 | — | — |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,893 | — | — |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 1983 | 50 | #2,041 | — | — |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,353 | — | — |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,292 | — | — |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,236 | — | — |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,064 | — | — |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,724 | — | — |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,663 | — | — |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,486 | — | — |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,026 | — | — |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,707 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,183 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,351 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,772 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,866 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,643 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,297 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,543 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,378 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,674 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,936 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,737 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,614 | — | — |
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).