Nechama — #1567 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Nechama

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,908 babies named Nechama between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nechama currently holds the #1567 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 138 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nechama performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,030 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Nechama shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,840 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Nechama in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nechama 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 3,908 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.