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Naman

#9,443 in 2025Boys' name

Bowed, bent, humble, through नमन

Naman has been given to 521 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #9,443 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Naman, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naman: meaning, origin, and history

Bowed, bent, humble, through नमन

Sanskrit

What Naman means

Naman belongs to the name family reached through Naman → नमन. Its meaning is “bowed, bent, humble”.

Origin, language, and formation

Naman is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Naman comes through Sanskrit नमन.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include नमन.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 521 boys were recorded with the name Naman between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2010; its best national rank was #3,563 in 1948.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,902 in 2020 to #9,443 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,837 in 2015 to #9,443 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 Naman?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,443
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naman 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Namans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Naman was born before 2009 — so the typical Naman is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
503
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (172).

Is Naman 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
−4,620
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,541
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,606
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.6%
Peak was 2010 (28)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,563
1948

Spellings of Naman

Naman is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 29.4% against Naman's 0.03%.

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 Naman is used

Across 1910–2025, Naman was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 473,126 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 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. Naman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Naman around the world

Where Naman 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
    1973–2018
    #6,524
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2008–2019
    #2,583
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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.

Naman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,443
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,541
Best rank ever
#3,563
1948
Peak year
2010
28 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
521
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Naman

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

NamirNamariYamanAimanInmanNamonOthmanAhmanNameerRymanZalmanNamishOusmanUthmanEmanUsmanOlmanNamCaymanBowmanLemanColmanHarmanErman

Sibling names for Naman

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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