Naim
Naim was given to 97 boys in 2025, #1,694 among boys’ names; 2,697 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,630 Americans named Naim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 7 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Naim mean?
Wiktionary, Latin section
Naim is “a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Naim”
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ναΐν (Naḯn), derived from Biblical Hebrew נָעִים (Na'ím) for the given name, from Biblical Hebrew ניין for the village.
[ˈna.ĩː]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Latin section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Naim?
#1,694 among boys’ names, 2025
Naim rose from #2,844 in 2015 to #1,694 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.9 to 56.8 per million.
135 babies in 2023, the peak
Naim peaked in 2023, when 135 boys were given it, #1,384 among boys’ names. The 97 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,694 | 56.8 |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,577 | 63.8 |
| 2023 | 135 | #1,384 | 78.9 |
| 2022 | 80 | #1,943 | 45.8 |
| 2021 | 94 | #1,732 | 53.7 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,012 | 41.1 |
| 2019 | 80 | #1,881 | 44.6 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,319 | 31.9 |
| 2017 | 53 | #2,438 | 28.6 |
| 2016 | 45 | #2,713 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,844 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 41 | #2,871 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,131 | 33.3 |
| 2012 | 56 | #2,316 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,690 | 23.7 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,346 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 72 | #1,968 | 36.3 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,035 | 33.8 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,086 | 31.8 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,164 | 29.2 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,069 | 30.0 |
| 2004 | 61 | #1,981 | 30.7 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,091 | 27.3 |
| 2002 | 67 | #1,734 | 34.5 |
| 2001 | 73 | #1,620 | 37.6 |
| 2000 | 52 | #1,985 | 26.5 |
| 1999 | 50 | #1,953 | 26.0 |
| 1998 | 58 | #1,758 | 30.3 |
| 1997 | 63 | #1,619 | 33.4 |
| 1996 | 65 | #1,543 | 34.3 |
| 1995 | 49 | #1,791 | 25.7 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,028 | 21.2 |
| 1993 | 42 | #1,952 | 21.4 |
| 1992 | 43 | #1,895 | 21.5 |
| 1991 | 31 | #2,326 | 15.3 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,670 | 12.2 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,749 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,816 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,198 | 14.5 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,656 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,407 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,822 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 29 | #1,888 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 35 | #1,692 | 19.3 |
| 1981 | 29 | #1,931 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 37 | #1,611 | 20.7 |
| 1979 | 33 | #1,740 | 19.2 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,296 | 29.8 |
| 1977 | 36 | #1,564 | 21.9 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,204 | 33.1 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,022 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,074 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,361 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Naim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Naim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naim, and how old are they?
2,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,697 Americans ever recorded as Naim. The median Naim alive today is 19 years old; half are between 7 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,491 people named Naim (49 women and girls, 2,442 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,081 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 215 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 507 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 945 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 962 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Naim born?
The states with the most babies named Naim are Texas, California and Florida, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,283 | 0.5× |
| California | 14 | #1,345 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,176 | 0.6× |
| New York | 7 | #1,518 | 2.0× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,108 | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 6 | #904 | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,377 | 2.4× |
Where Naim is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Naim is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1973 it was given 3.6 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 Naim 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,780 babies since 1880, Naim is the most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 97 of their 273 babies (36%), 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 Naim
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 Naim and names like it
- Compare Naim and NahumBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNaim peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naim since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Naim: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Naim.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Naim alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.