boys:
926 births since 1993
#3665 (20th percentile)
overall:
926 births since 1993
#6813 (12th percentile)
The name Nahom is the #6,813 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 926 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 11.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,665 (20.0% percentile) for all time with 926 births since 1993.
Nahom first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (first recorded for boys in 1993).
For boys, Nahom reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #834) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 26 births per million (ranked 5.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Nahom ranks #883 for boys (3.1% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 70.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nahom".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Nahom. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.6% confident that Nahom is pronounced as NAY-hahm, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nuh-HOHM, at 18.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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