Nechuma
Nechuma was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,627 among girls’ names; 167 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nechuma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nechuma?
#11,627 among girls’ names, 2025
Nechuma rose from #14,068 in 2015 to #11,627 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.0 per million.
12 babies in 2021, the peak
Nechuma peaked in 2021, when 12 girls were given it, #8,842 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,627 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,856 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,925 | 5.6 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,842 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,619 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,290 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,630 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,707 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,089 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,068 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #15,978 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,055 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,308 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,767 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,537 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,877 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,997 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,383 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,415 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,211 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,803 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,812 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,916 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,052 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nechuma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nechuma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nechuma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nechuma, and how old are they?
An estimated 166 Americans named Nechuma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 176 people named Nechuma (173 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 124 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% 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.
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 Nechuma born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,620 | 12.6× |
Where Nechuma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nechuma is most over-represented in New York: since 1995 it was given 12.6 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 girls’ 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 Nechuma 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 4,197 babies since 1880, Nechuma is the second most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 130 babies (6.2%), again the second 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 Nechuma
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 Nechuma and names like it
- Compare Nechuma and NechamaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNechuma peaked in 2021.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nechuma since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Nechuma.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nechuma alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.