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Nahum

#2,380 in 2025Boys' name

Consolation

Nahum has been given to 2,197 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #2,380 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Nahum, 2025

1 in 57,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nahum: meaning, origin, and history

Consolation

Hebrew

What Nahum means

Nahum means “consolation”, associated with nakhúm.

Origin, language, and formation

Nahum is used in English and Spanish. Its origins include Hebrew.

Nahum comes through Hebrew נַחוּם.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Nahum is pronounced /ˈneɪəm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,197 boys were recorded with the name Nahum between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 85 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,731 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,788 in 2020 to #2,380 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,158 in 2015 to #2,380 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 Nahum?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 57,200
58 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 29,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,380
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
39,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nahum 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 39,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nahum. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nahums were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nahum was born before 2008 — so the typical Nahum is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,184
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (667).

Is Nahum 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
−101
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+408
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−222
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.91×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.2%
Peak was 2007 (85)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,731
2005

Spellings of Nahum

Nahum is not the most common spelling — Tatum is, with 40.8% against Nahum's 6.8%.

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 Nahum is used

Across 1910–2025, Nahum was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 85,418 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5Colorado1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Maryland1 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. Nahum has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nahum around the world

Where Nahum 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
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1999–2024
    #4,424
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–2005
    #643
    in 2005

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.

Notable people named Nahum

People whose public names include Nahum, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Nahum in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Nahum. Linked forms have their own page here.

NaumNachumNachmanNahman

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Nahum by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,380
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 408
Best rank ever
#1,731
2005
Peak year
2007
85 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,197
Count in 2025
58

Names similar to Nahum

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

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Names with a curve like Nahum

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nahum, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Nahum

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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