Nimrod
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Traditionally derived from the Hebrew root 'marad' (מרד) meaning 'to rebel' (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/nimrod/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Nimrod is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country: 8,002 people, counted by Nyilvántartó in 2025, which ranks it 24th. Nimrod is also written נמרוד in Hebrew.
- HUHungary1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- KEKenya≈1 in 13K
- GYGuyana1 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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nimrod itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
8,002 people, 2025
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Nimrod in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled נמרוד in IL Israel.
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.
How to pronounce Nimrod
- Spanish:/nimrod/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Swahili:/niɱɾoɗ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Traditionally derived from the Hebrew root 'marad' (מרד) meaning 'to rebel'. Modern scholarship often suggests the name may be a distortion of a Mesopotamian deity (such as Ninurta) or a historical king (such as Tukulti-Ninurta I).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Nimrod, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nimrod 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | — | 8,002 | 1 in 1.2K | 8K | Nimrod | 41 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Nimrod | 31 |
| IL Israel | #533 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 83 | נמרוד | 107 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Nimrod | 22 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Nimrod | 22 |
| GY Guyana | — | 24 | 1 in 31K | 24 | — | — |
8,002 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025, counting the spelling nimród. 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"); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Nimrod 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.
While the biblical text is neutral, Jewish and Christian traditions often interpret him as a rebellious archetype who led the construction of the Tower of Babel. In Islamic tradition, he is frequently identified as the tyrannical king who confronted Abraham.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In German, biblical hunter name; used for a boaster or strongman
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In English, A foolish person; an idiot.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, great-grandson of Noah; great hunter
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, männl. Vom. biblischer Herkunft (hebr. nimröd, entstellte Form des assyrisch babylonischen Göttemamens Ninurta). Nach der Bibel war Nimrod ein sagenhafter König von Babylon und Assur, berühmt als Jäger.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)- Nimrod Alonib. 1956ILIsraeli professor
- Nimród Antalb. 1973USHungarian American film director, screenwriter, actor
- Nimrod Alonib. 1973ILIsraeli military officer
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)48 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nimrod mean, and where does it come from?
- Traditionally derived from the Hebrew root 'marad' (מרד) meaning 'to rebel'. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Nimrod?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /nimrod/; in Swahili /niɱɾoɗ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- How common is the name Nimrod?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 8,002 people named Nimrod in 2025, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Nimrod compared with other names?
- In Israel, Nimrod is the 533rd most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
- Is Nimrod a male or female name?
- Nimrod is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Nimrod?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 8.0 thousand people named Nimrod, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nimrod. After it come Kenya, Israel, Philippines and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Nimrod most common?
- Nimrod is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Nimrod?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nimrodThe 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, “Nimrod” — ranked 24th in Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2025). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.