Naum
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Nahum (the book of the Bible)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Naum is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 179K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 269K
- ALAlbania1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
791 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Nahum (the book of the Bible)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naum 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 791 | 1 in 421K | 776 | Naum | 54 |
| BR Brazil | 786 | 1 in 269K | 786 | Naum | 62 |
| AR Argentina | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 179K | 121 | Naum | 38 |
| CO Colombia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 319K | — | Naum | 18 |
| RU Russia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Naum | 5 |
| AL Albania | 98 | 1 in 31K | 98 | — | — |
| HN Honduras | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Naum | 6 |
| MD Moldova | 78 | 1 in 43K | 78 | — | — |
| SV El Salvador | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Naum | 6 |
| SI Slovenia | 19 | 1 in 111K | 24 | — | — |
791 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); e-services.md — living population register; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Naum is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In cdo, of officers, dollars, etc., round “to reach all around, to circulate. one of five lofty hills in Shantung where genii dwell
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
Russian form of NAHUM . Its popularity has been influenced by popular etymological analysis as a compound of the Russian prefix na + the adjective umny clever, intelligent.
as a word
In Russian, "having been consoled."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Icelandic, strong nominative singular feminine of naumur
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)
- Naum Faiqb. 1868TRAssyrian writer and nationalist
- Naum Jasnyb. 1883USRussian-American scientist and economist (1883–1967)
- Naum Gabob. 1890USRussian-American sculptor (1890–1977)
- Naum Akhiezerb. 1901UARussian mathematician (1901–1980)
- Naum Meimanb. 1912ILRussian mathematician (1912-2001)
- Naum Vilenkinb. 1920RURussian mathematician (1920–1991)
- Naum Z. Shorb. 1937UARussian mathematician (1937–2006)
- Naum Kleimanb. 1937RURussian film critic
- Naum Khaimovich Grubertb. 1951LVLatvian-Dutch pianist
- Naum Nimb. 1951RUSoviet human rights activist and journalist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 347 | #58,481 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 336 | #64,041 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 322 | #58,849 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 121 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Naum mean, and where does it come from?
- Nahum (the book of the Bible) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Naum a male or female name?
- Naum 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.
- How do you pronounce Naum?
- A machine transcription gives /nəəm/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Naum?
- In the etymology graph, Nahum is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Naum have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 791 people named Naum, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naum.
- Where is Naum most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Naum is densest in Albania — about 1 in 31 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Naum?
- In the United States, the national register counted 791 people named Naum in 2020, about 1 in 421 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Naum?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naumThe 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, “Naum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.