boys:
1.4k births since 1975
#3243 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1975
#6356 (18th percentile)
The name Nam is the #6,356 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,387 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 17.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,243 (29.2% percentile) for all time with 1,387 births since 1975.
Nam first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for boys in 1975).
For boys, Nam reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 7.7% percentile (ranked #635) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 31 births per million (ranked 7.7% percentile). Despite a low point around 2014, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Nam ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 14.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nam".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nam. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.1% confident that Nam is pronounced as nahm, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nam, at 42.2% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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