Nahum
Nahum reached its high-water mark in 2007 at number 1,741, and has been recorded 2,197 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,363rd. About 2,100 Nahums are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Nahum
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,197
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 1,741st
- Rank in 2025
- 2,363rd
- First recorded
- 1918
How old the living Nahums are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,197 babies given the name since 1918, about 2,100 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 9 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Nahums
- Nahum Tate (1652–1715)Anglo-Irish poet and playwright
- Nahum Goldmann (1894–1982)Founder and long-standing President of the World Jewish Congress
- Nahum Sokolow (1859–1936)Hebrew journalist, editor, essayist, and political leader
- Nahum Stelmach (1936–1999)Israeli footballer
- Nahum Eitingon (1899–1981)Soviet intelligence officer
- Nahum Sonenberg (born 1946)Canadian microbiologist
People named Nahum with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nahum is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nahum is most concentrated in Texas (5.6×), California (4.2×), Florida (1.7×), New York (0.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Nahum peaked:
Nahum elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Nahum | 164 | 2,175th |
| France boys | Nahum | 50 | 4,424th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Nahum lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 329 men called Nahum were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Nahum | 38 | 0.071 | 1,184 |
| Palmas, Las | Nahum | 27 | 0.046 | 1,685 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Nahum | 12 | 0.038 | 1,451 |
| Pontevedra | Nahum | 12 | 0.026 | 1,385 |
| Tarragona | Nahum | 9 | 0.021 | 2,332 |
| Cantabria | Nahum | 6 | 0.021 | 1,787 |
Listed in 20 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 32 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Nahum against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.