Naman
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Respelling of French Namon or Namin, respectively an inflected and a pet form of the Germanic personal name Namo
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Naman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 364K(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 942as Noman
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.9Kas Noman
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 Naman 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 named Noman, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nauman in PK Pakistan, AE United Arab Emirates, SA Saudi Arabia and Noman in BD Bangladesh, CN China.
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(measured from records)
Respelling of French Namon or Namin, respectively an inflected and a pet form of the Germanic personal name Namo.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #494 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 942 | listed | Nauman | 114 |
| BD Bangladesh | #360 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Noman | 87 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Nauman | 44 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Noman | 7 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Nauman | 67 |
| US United States | — | 913 | 1 in 364K | 3.5K | Naman | 168 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 134 | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Naman is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
name; form; mark; renowned; of a great name
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In ang, accusative singular of nama
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, used to soften requests
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Naman Goyalresearcher, artificial intelligence, Facebook AI Research
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 390 | #56,551 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 347 | #58,481 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 318 | #59,453 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Naman mean, and where does it come from?
- Respelling of French Namon or Namin, respectively an inflected and a pet form of the Germanic personal name Namo. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Naman a male or female name?
- Naman is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Naman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 248 thousand people named Noman in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Naman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 913 people named Naman in 2020, about 1 in 364 thousand residents.
- How common is Naman compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Naman is the 494th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/namanThe 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, “Naman” — the 494th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.