Nam vs Namon
American parents have registered 1,404 Nams since 1880, against 1,121 Namons. Nam is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Nam Namon
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 121 years in which either name was published, Namon for 70 years and Nam for 51 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Nam | Namon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,404 | 1,121 |
| Most in one year | 58 | 25 |
| Babies in 2025 | 8 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,400 | 490 |
| Median age today | 31 | 58 |
| Peak year | 1984 | 1942 |
| Best rank | 1,198th boys | 1,381st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 8,910th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1975 | 1884 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,404 | 0 / 1,121 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Namons alive today are over 58; half the Nams are over 31. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nam and Namon.