Nakuma
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nakuma has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1977. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Nakuma, 1978
1 in 529,000
Nakuma over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nakuma?
Nakuma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1978
- 1 in 529,000
- 6 of 3,173,639 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 274,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1978
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 366,634 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nakuma sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1978 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 366,634 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nakuma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nakumas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nakuma was born before 1977 — so the typical Nakuma is around 48 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 15
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (15).
Is Nakuma 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1977 (9)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Nakuma
Nakuma is not the most common spelling — Nahum is, with 37.5% against Nakuma's 0.26%.
Nakuma around the world
Where Nakuma 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.
- South Australia1989–1989#478in 1989
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nakuma by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nakuma
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nakuma
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.