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Nadim

#8,701 in 2025Boys' name

Drinking companion

Nadim has been given to 425 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #8,701 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Nadim, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nadim: meaning, origin, and history

Drinking companion

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nadim means

Nadim means “drinking companion”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 425 boys were recorded with the name Nadim between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1998; its best national rank was #3,727 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,893 in 2020 to #8,701 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,866 in 2015 to #8,701 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 Nadim?

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
#8,701
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nadim 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 Nadim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nadims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nadim was born before 2003 — so the typical Nadim is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
425
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 24.0% of all recorded uses (102).

Is Nadim 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
+886
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−808
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−835
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.9%
Peak was 1998 (17)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,727
1985

Spellings of Nadim

Nadim is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 86.1% against Nadim's 0.06%.

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 Nadim is used

Across 1910–2025, Nadim was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,537,827 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Nadim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nadim around the world

Where Nadim 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
    1996–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    1975–2025
    #2,603
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nadim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,701
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 808
Best rank ever
#3,727
1985
Peak year
1998
17 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
425
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Nadim

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

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Sibling names for Nadim

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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