Nachum
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəkəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nachum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 2.1Kas נחום(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 6.4Kas נחום
- LBLebanon≈1 in 11Kas נחום
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nachum itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 999 (inferred from the name graph)
≈82,000 named Nahom, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Eritrea, est., as Nahom
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled נחום in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon, Naum in US United States and Nahom in ET Ethiopia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nachum counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #469 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Nahom | 17 |
| ER Eritrea | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 999 | 926 | — | 8 |
| IL Israel | #228 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 9.2K | נחום | 81 |
| RO Romania | #459 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | נחום | 12 |
| US United States | — | 2,783as Nahum | 1 in 120K | 2.8K | Naum | 153 |
| LB Lebanon | #489 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | נחום | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; The page presents a list of the most popular baby names in Eritrea, published by Names.org.. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dora Cohnb. 1867DEnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1867-06-18
- Rosa Cossenb. 1870DEnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1870)
- Goldine Nachumb. 1870DEHolocaust victim (born 1870)
- Clara Nachumb. 1873DEholocaust victim, b. 1873-07-26
- Elsa Nachumb. 1875PLholocaust victim, b. 1875-07-15
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nachum?
- A machine transcription gives /nəkəm/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- In which country does Nachum have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named Nahom in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nachum?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,783 people named Nahum in 2020, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
- How common is Nachum compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Nachum is the 469th most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nachum?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nachumThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nachum” — the 469th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.