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Nachum

#8,700 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Nahum

Nachum has been given to 285 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #8,700 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Nachum, 2025

1 in 368,000

Nachum over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nachum: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Nahum

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nachum means

Nachum is a form of Nahum.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nachum → Nahum. The family’s meaning is “consolation”, recorded in English with the source elements nakhúm.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nahum.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 285 boys were recorded with the name Nachum between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1989; its best national rank was #3,282 in 1989.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,255 in 2020 to #8,700 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,865 in 2015 to #8,700 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nachum?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,700
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nachum 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nachum. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nachums were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nachum was born before 2011 — so the typical Nachum is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
285
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (84).

Is Nachum 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
−1,109
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,555
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−835
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 1989 (18)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,282
1989

Spellings of Nachum

Nachum is not the most common spelling — Nahum is, with 63.4% against Nachum's 8.2%.

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 Nachum is used

Across 1910–2025, Nachum was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 157,635 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 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. Nachum has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nachum by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,700
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,555
Best rank ever
#3,282
1989
Peak year
1989
18 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
285
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Nachum

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

NochumNachmenNacariNachmanArhumSohumNacomaNachoNahumNaceNacierMitchumLeihumNachshon

Sibling names for Nachum

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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