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Naim

#1,694 in 2025Boys' name

Tranquil, happy, at ease

Naim has been given to 2,697 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #1,694 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 135 recorded.

Babies named Naim, 2025

1 in 34,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naim: meaning, origin, and history

Tranquil, happy, at ease

Hebrew

What Naim means

Naim means “tranquil, happy, at ease”.

Origin, language, and formation

Naim is used in Albanian and Latin. Its origins include Hebrew.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Naim is pronounced [ˈna.ĩː].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,697 boys were recorded with the name Naim between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 135 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,204 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,012 in 2020 to #1,694 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,844 in 2015 to #1,694 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 Naim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,200
97 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 17,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,694
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,691 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naim 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,691 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Naims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Naim was born before 2006 — so the typical Naim is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,697
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (634).

Is Naim 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
−117
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+318
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,150
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.9%
Peak was 2023 (135)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,204
1976

Spellings of Naim

Naim is not the most common spelling — Jim is, with 17.9% against Naim's 0.32%.

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 Naim is used

Across 2016–2025, Naim was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 18,604 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 11,111
  2. 2New York1 in 12,500
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
  4. 4Maryland1 in 14,286
  5. 5Florida1 in 16,667
  6. 6Texas1 in 16,667
  7. 7California1 in 20,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 20,000

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.

Naim around the world

Where Naim 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
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1956–2025
    #67
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1973–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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 Naim

People whose public names include Naim, 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.

Naim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,694
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 318
Best rank ever
#1,204
1976
Peak year
2023
135 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,697
Count in 2025
97

Names similar to Naim

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

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Names with a curve like Naim

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

ArenTamirAharonAdnanLisandroKeoniRamiJoaoArinAminKenanAvrohom

Sibling names for Naim

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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