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.

rarermore common
  • 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)

791 people, 2020

Sources
62 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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.

Where Naum is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7911 in 421K776Naum54
BR Brazil7861 in 269K786Naum62
AR Argentina≈250 est.≈1 in 179K121Naum38
CO Colombia≈150 est.≈1 in 319K—Naum18
RU Russia≈100 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Naum5
AL Albania981 in 31K98——
HN Honduras≈92 est.≈1 in 101K—Naum6
MD Moldova781 in 43K78——
SV El Salvador≈56 est.≈1 in 115K—Naum6
SI Slovenia191 in 111K24——

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Naum is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew given name40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Poland, Romania

    Languages: Hebrew, English, German

    Also written נחום, Nachum, Nahom, Nahum, Naḥum

  • Russian given name38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian

    Also written Наум, Нахум, Nahum, Naoum, Наума

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Naüm

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Azerbaijan, Syria

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Naüm

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

1850190019502000Naum Faiq, b. 1868Naum Jasny, b. 1883Naum Gabo, b. 1890Naum Akhiezer, b. 1901Naum Meiman, b. 1912Naum Vilenkin, b. 1920Naum Z. Shor, b. 1937Naum Kleiman, b. 1937Naum Khaimovich Grubert, b. 1951Naum Nim, b. 1951

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)

InformalHi Naum,

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.

Official registers attesting Naum
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010347#58,481
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020336#64,041
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000322#58,849
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—121—

Reference works 6

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

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.
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).
What are other forms of the name Naum?
In the etymology graph, Nahum is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Naum?
A machine transcription gives /nəəm/ (IPA) for English.
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.

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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.

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