Nuzum
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Newsome . Further information: This spelling of the name originated in Ireland; it is now no longer found there but is more common in the USA
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnuzəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nuzum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 226K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 80K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 121K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
1,475 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
variant of Newsome . Further information: This spelling of the name originated in Ireland; it is now no longer found there but is more common in the USA.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nuzum 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 | 1,475 | 1 in 226K | 1.5K | Nuzum | 231 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 180K | — | Nuzum | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 238K | — | Nuzum | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 478K | 27 | Nuzum | 38 |
| PH Philippines | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Nuzum | 5 |
| IE Ireland | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Nuzum | 22 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Nuzum | 16 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Nuzum | 1 |
1,475 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Nuzum is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
variant of Newsome. This is now a rare name in Ireland.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Jack Robert Nuzumb. 1921USCircuit Judge and Legislator
- Jerry Nuzumb. 1923USAmerican football player (1923-1997)
- Charles Nuzumb. 1923USRecipient of the Purple Heart medal
- Henry Nuzumb. 1977USAmerican rower
- Daniel NuzumIEresearcher
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,648 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,738 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,246 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 27 | #74,851 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Nuzum mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Newsome . Further information: This spelling of the name originated in Ireland; it is now no longer found there but is more common in the USA. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Nuzum?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnuzəm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nuzum have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Nuzum, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nuzum.
- How common is the name Nuzum?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,475 people named Nuzum in 2010, about 1 in 226 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nuzumThe 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, “Nuzum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.