boys:
2.5k births since 1973
#2536 (45th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1973
#5350 (31st percentile)
The name Naim is the #5,350 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,487 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 30.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,536 (44.7% percentile) for all time with 2,487 births since 1973.
Naim first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (first recorded for boys in 1973).
For boys, Naim reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 14.3% percentile (ranked #781) with 74 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 74 births per million (ranked 14.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Naim is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #781 (14.3% percentile) with 74 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Naim".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Naim. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 29.3% confident that Naim is pronounced as nah-EEM, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is naim, at 22.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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