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Nachman

#3,565 in 2025Boys' name

Comforter

Nachman has been given to 743 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #3,565 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Nachman, 2025

1 in 104,000

Nachman over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nachman: meaning, origin, and history

Comforter

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nachman means

Nachman means “comforter”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 743 boys were recorded with the name Nachman between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2012; its best national rank was #3,427 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,104 in 2020 to #3,565 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,842 in 2015 to #3,565 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Nachman?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 53,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,565
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nachman sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nachman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nachmans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nachman was born before 2010 — so the typical Nachman is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
743
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (226).

Is Nachman rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+723
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+539
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+277
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2012 (32)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,427
2012

Spellings of Nachman

Nachman is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 98.4% against Nachman's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Nachman is used

Across 1910–2025, Nachman was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 35,685 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 25,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nachman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nachman around the world

Where Nachman ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nachman by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,565
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 539
Best rank ever
#3,427
2012
Peak year
2012
32 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
743
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Nachman

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Nachman

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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