Nachman
Nachman was given to 32 boys in 2025, #3,565 among boys’ names; 743 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nachman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nachman?
#3,565 among boys’ names, 2025
Nachman rose from #3,842 in 2015 to #3,565 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 18.7 per million.
32 babies in 2012, the peak
Nachman peaked in 2012, when 32 boys were given it, #3,427 among boys’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #3,565 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,288 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,959 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,391 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,969 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,104 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,281 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,866 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,688 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,717 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,842 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,858 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,916 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,427 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,126 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,471 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,235 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,618 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,661 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,456 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,480 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,698 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,742 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,882 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,129 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,946 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,356 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,153 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,947 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,336 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,390 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,185 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,362 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,492 | 6.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,673 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,613 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,761 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,466 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,247 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,382 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,968 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,052 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,321 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,059 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,623 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,395 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,023 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,749 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,746 | 3.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,422 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,807 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nachman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nachman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nachman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nachman, and how old are they?
An estimated 725 Americans named Nachman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 539 people named Nachman (2 women and girls, 537 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 576 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nachman born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 23 | #654 | 10.2× |
Where Nachman is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nachman is most over-represented in New York: since 1958 it was given 10.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nachman with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 900 babies since 1880, Nachman is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 44 babies (73%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nachman
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nachman and names like it
- Compare Nachman and NachmenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNachman peaked in 2012.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nachman since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Nachman.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nachman alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.