Nahum
#2,363 for boys in 2025, 58 births
- Peak · boys
- 2005 · 77 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,197since 1918
Nahum over time
Rank among boys' names. Nahum has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,363 | 58 |
| 2024 | #2,261 | 63 |
| 2023 | #2,078 | 71 |
| 2022 | #2,717 | 48 |
| 2021 | #2,439 | 55 |
| 2020 | #2,759 | 44 |
| 2019 | #2,170 | 65 |
| 2018 | #2,122 | 66 |
| 2017 | #2,003 | 71 |
| 2016 | #2,278 | 58 |
| 2015 | #2,145 | 64 |
| 2014 | #2,082 | 67 |
| 2013 | #2,021 | 67 |
| 2012 | #1,923 | 74 |
| 2011 | #1,849 | 76 |
| 2010 | #2,212 | 59 |
| 2009 | #1,942 | 73 |
| 2008 | #1,802 | 82 |
| 2007 | #1,741 | 85 |
| 2006 | #1,758 | 79 |
| 2005 | #1,725 | 77 |
| 2004 | #2,024 | 59 |
| 2003 | #1,906 | 61 |
| 2002 | #2,125 | 50 |
| 2001 | #2,520 | 38 |
| 2000 | #2,222 | 44 |
| 1999 | #2,098 | 45 |
| 1998 | #2,312 | 38 |
| 1997 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #1,872 | 48 |
| 1995 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1994 | #2,082 | 39 |
| 1993 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #3,105 | 20 |
| 1990 | #2,695 | 24 |
| 1989 | #2,902 | 21 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #3,072 | 16 |
| 1986 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #3,599 | 12 |
| 1984 | #3,270 | 13 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #3,221 | 13 |
| 1980 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
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| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
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| 1953 | #3,425 | 6 |
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| 1923 | #3,822 | 6 |
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| 1918 | #3,368 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nahum! It came in at #3,368, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1922, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Nahum is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,180 · 1 in 15,093
- California#1,219 · 1 in 18,155
- Florida#1,533 · 1 in 19,800
Best ever in a state: #656 in Colorado, 2007.
Show every state
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| Texas | #1,180 | 12 | 1 in 15,093 |
| California | #1,219 | 14 | 1 in 18,155 |
| Florida | #1,533 | 5 | 1 in 19,800 |
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See more about Nahum
- 102 spots since 2024 (#2,261 → #2,363)
- 396 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #2,363)
- 218 spots since 2015 (#2,145 → #2,363)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 2005 at #1,725 (77 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,093 boys born in 2023 were named Nahum (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,450 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,725 in 2005, was only 1 in 25,939 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.4% of all boys named Nahum (667) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 7 | #3,368 (1918) | #3,368 |
| 1920s | 6 | #3,822 (1923) | #3,822 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 13 | #3,290 (1959) | #3,358 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 82 | #2,946 (1976) | #3,792 |
| 1980s | 130 | #2,902 (1989) | #3,547 |
| 1990s | 305 | #1,872 (1996) | #2,671 |
| 2000s | 648 | #1,725 (2005) | #1,977 |
| 2010s | 667 | #1,849 (2011) | #2,081 |
| 2020s | 339 | #2,078 (2023) | #2,436 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nahum in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 25,939 of them was named Nahum, which outranked 87.1% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,711Rusty78
- #1,711Zaiden78
- #1,711Zev78
- #1,725Nahum77
- #1,725Azariah77
- #1,725Cedrick77
- #1,725Deron77
- #1,742Aramis76
- #1,742Arath76
- #1,742Braydan76
Tied with 16 names at #1,725; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.