Numa — #9021 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Numa

The Social Security Administration has registered 165 babies named Numa between 1913 and 2024, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Numa currently holds the #9021 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Numa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 92 additional births since 2000.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Numa performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 58 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Numa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 31 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Numa in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Numa 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 165 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.