How rare is the name Nam?

8,645 people in the United States have the first name Nam, about 1 in 34,937. It ranks #2,709 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

NAM

#2,709

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,645
About
1 in 34,937
This common or more
80.6%
Who bears it

Of the 8,645 people named Nam, 95.4% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 1.8% as White and 1.2% as Black. 76.1% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Nam peaked in 1984, when 58 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19752025
Peak year
1984
Births that year
58
In 2025*
8 ▼86%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 1,404 babies have been given the name since 1975. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Nam by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #3,631. The largest share of babies named Nam, 47.6%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#9,33081
1980s#3,631458
1990s#5,731325
2000s#8,609250
2010s#9,527234
2020s#16,87256
Generation X 1965–808.6%
Millennials 1981–9647.6%
Generation Z 1997–1228.6%
2013 and later15.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Either side of Nam

#2,707 Yessica · 8,654#2,708 Jie · 8,648#2,710 Coby · 8,644#2,711 Adrien · 8,637

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nam, most common first.

#2,583 Nan · 9,307#6,438 Naim · 2,491#12,409 Nami · 1,003#14,777 Naum · 791#48,328 Nama · 132

Also a last name

As a last name, Nam ranks #5,113 of 156,621, with 6,632 people. See Nam as a last name

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