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Nechama

#1,690 in 2025Girls' name

Comfort, consolation

Nechama has been given to 4,030 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #1,690 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 138 recorded.

Babies named Nechama, 2025

1 in 27,200

Nechama over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nechama: meaning, origin, and history

Comfort, consolation

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nechama means

Nechama means “comfort, consolation”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,030 girls were recorded with the name Nechama between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 138 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,553 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,695 in 2020 to #1,690 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,775 in 2015 to #1,690 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 Nechama?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,200
122 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,690
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,836 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nechama sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,836 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nechama. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nechamas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nechama was born before 2007 — so the typical Nechama is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,030
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (1,030).

Is Nechama 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
−116
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+85
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.4%
Peak was 2022 (138)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,553
2022

Where Nechama is used

Across 1910–2025, Nechama was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,448 girls, against 1 in 19,963 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

029 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,448
  2. 2New York1 in 6,667
  3. 3Maryland1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Nechama has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nechama around the world

Where Nechama 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
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Nechama

People whose public names include Nechama, 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.

Nechama by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,690
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5
Best rank ever
#1,553
2022
Peak year
2022
138 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,030
Count in 2025
122

Names similar to Nechama

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

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Names with a curve like Nechama

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

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Sibling names for Nechama

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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