Nahom
Nahom was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,485 among boys’ names; 981 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nahom by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nahom?
#3,485 among boys’ names, 2025
Nahom fell from #2,796 in 2015 to #3,485 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 22.4 to 19.3 per million.
53 babies in 2009, the peak
Nahom peaked in 2009, when 53 boys were given it, #2,434 among boys’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,485 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,657 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,528 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,252 | 14.3 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,190 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 34 | #3,318 | 19.7 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,769 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 44 | #2,781 | 24.2 |
| 2017 | 44 | #2,785 | 23.8 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,755 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #2,796 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,979 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,165 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 52 | #2,437 | 27.4 |
| 2011 | 52 | #2,428 | 27.4 |
| 2010 | 51 | #2,456 | 26.6 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,434 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 44 | #2,774 | 21.6 |
| 2007 | 38 | #3,064 | 18.3 |
| 2006 | 49 | #2,500 | 23.8 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,209 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,209 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,558 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,139 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,408 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,229 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,334 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,568 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,167 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,918 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,541 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,778 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,636 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nahom a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nahom has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nahom: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nahom, and how old are they?
An estimated 970 Americans named Nahom and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,253 people named Nahom (13 women and girls, 1,240 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 810 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,174 babies since 1880, Nahom is the fifth most given (9.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 290 babies (11%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Nahom
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 Nahom and names like it
- Compare Nahom and NaimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNahom peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nahom since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Nahom.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nahom alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.