Nechama
#1,684 for girls in 2025, 122 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 138 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,030since 1950
Nechama over time
Rank among girls' names. Nechama 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 | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,684 | 122 |
| 2024 | #1,568 | 135 |
| 2023 | #1,569 | 135 |
| 2022 | #1,548 | 138 |
| 2021 | #1,652 | 126 |
| 2020 | #1,687 | 121 |
| 2019 | #1,919 | 103 |
| 2018 | #1,727 | 119 |
| 2017 | #2,320 | 79 |
| 2016 | #1,841 | 112 |
| 2015 | #1,770 | 118 |
| 2014 | #1,830 | 111 |
| 2013 | #1,939 | 102 |
| 2012 | #2,265 | 83 |
| 2011 | #1,857 | 108 |
| 2010 | #2,077 | 95 |
| 2009 | #1,956 | 106 |
| 2008 | #2,054 | 100 |
| 2007 | #2,213 | 89 |
| 2006 | #2,229 | 86 |
| 2005 | #2,140 | 86 |
| 2004 | #2,044 | 89 |
| 2003 | #2,260 | 75 |
| 2002 | #2,331 | 69 |
| 2001 | #2,171 | 75 |
| 2000 | #1,998 | 83 |
| 1999 | #2,283 | 65 |
| 1998 | #2,164 | 66 |
| 1997 | #2,360 | 56 |
| 1996 | #2,151 | 63 |
| 1995 | #2,394 | 54 |
| 1994 | #1,972 | 71 |
| 1993 | #2,380 | 53 |
| 1992 | #2,128 | 63 |
| 1991 | #2,484 | 50 |
| 1990 | #2,523 | 47 |
| 1989 | #2,478 | 46 |
| 1988 | #2,803 | 37 |
| 1987 | #2,852 | 34 |
| 1986 | #2,052 | 52 |
| 1985 | #2,283 | 44 |
| 1984 | #2,111 | 47 |
| 1983 | #2,022 | 50 |
| 1982 | #2,327 | 42 |
| 1981 | #2,265 | 44 |
| 1980 | #2,486 | 38 |
| 1979 | #2,430 | 38 |
| 1978 | #2,741 | 30 |
| 1977 | #3,176 | 24 |
| 1976 | #3,002 | 24 |
| 1975 | #2,680 | 28 |
| 1974 | #2,616 | 28 |
| 1973 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1972 | #2,976 | 22 |
| 1971 | #2,665 | 27 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
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| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 |
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| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nechama! It came in at #4,315, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1959, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Nechama is popular in 2007
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#276 · 1 in 1,373
- New York#448 · 1 in 2,273
Best ever in a state: #111 in New Jersey, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #276 | 30 | 1 in 1,373 |
| New York | #448 | 43 | 1 in 2,273 |
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See more about Nechama
- 116 spots since 2024 (#1,568 → #1,684)
- 3 spots since 2020 (#1,687 → #1,684)
- 86 spots since 2015 (#1,770 → #1,684)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 2022 at #1,548 (138 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,885 girls born in 2022 were named Nechama (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,174 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 25.6% of all girls named Nechama (1,030) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 17 | #4,315 (1950) | #5,554 |
| 1960s | 61 | #4,198 (1969) | #5,312 |
| 1970s | 265 | #2,430 (1979) | #2,878 |
| 1980s | 434 | #2,022 (1983) | #2,368 |
| 1990s | 588 | #1,972 (1994) | #2,284 |
| 2000s | 858 | #1,956 (2009) | #2,140 |
| 2010s | 1,030 | #1,727 (2018) | #1,955 |
| 2020s | 777 | #1,548 (2022) | #1,618 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nechama in 2007
Top girls' names in 2007
More about 2007
girls
1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 21,602 of them was named Nechama, which outranked 89.2% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,198Sol90
- #2,198Tamar90
- #2,198Yaretzy90
- #2,213Nechama89
- #2,213Aaralyn89
- #2,213Adaline89
- #2,213Alaysha89
- #2,231Gisell88
- #2,231Ila88
- #2,231Jacelyn88
Tied with 17 names at #2,213; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.