Nahum — #2260 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nahum

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,139 babies named Nahum between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nahum currently holds the #2260 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 85 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nahum performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 667 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Nahum shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 387 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Nahum in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nahum in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,139 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.