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How popular is “Nahum” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nahum” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Nahum” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Nahum” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Nahum” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Nahum” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Nahum” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nahum” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 -100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 -100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 -100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1976 13 0.000004284 13 -100%
1977 13 0.000004093 13 -100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 -100%
1979 11 0.000003306 11 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 -100%
1981 13 0.000003758 13 -100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 -100%
1983 14 0.000004042 14 -100%
1984 13 0.000003726 13 -100%
1985 12 0.000003362 12 -100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 -100%
1987 16 0.000004438 16 -100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 -100%
1989 21 0.000005462 21 -100%
1990 24 0.000006072 24 -100%
1991 20 0.000005134 20 -100%
1992 18 0.000004686 18 -100%
1993 17 0.000004509 17 -100%
1994 39 0.00001049 39 -100%
1995 31 0.000008465 31 -100%
1996 48 0.000013161 48 -100%
1997 25 0.000006895 25 -100%
1998 38 0.000010331 38 -100%
1999 45 0.000012182 45 -100%
2000 44 0.000011641 44 -100%
2001 38 0.000010151 38 -100%
2002 50 0.000013375 50 -100%
2003 61 0.000016043 61 -100%
2004 59 0.000015441 59 -100%
2005 77 0.000020027 77 -100%
2006 79 0.000019969 79 -100%
2007 85 0.000021262 85 -100%
2008 82 0.000020862 82 -100%
2009 73 0.000019109 73 -100%
2010 59 0.000015964 59 -100%
2011 76 0.000020778 76 -100%
2012 74 0.000020233 74 -100%
2013 67 0.000018378 67 -100%
2014 67 0.000018077 67 -100%
2015 64 0.000017293 64 -100%
2016 58 0.000015809 58 -100%
2017 71 0.000019854 71 -100%
2018 66 0.000018772 66 -100%
2019 65 0.000018727 65 -100%
2020 44 0.000013171 44 -100%
2021 55 0.000016234 55 -100%
2022 48 0.000014188 48 -100%
2023 71 0.000021442 71 -100%
2024 63 0.000018927 63 -100%

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