Nam
About 1,404 American babies have been named Nam since 1975, most of them around 1984. In 2025 it ranked 8,910th. About 1,400 Nams are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Nam
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,404
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 1984
- Best rank
- 1,198th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,910th
- First recorded
- 1975
How old the living Nams are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,404 babies given the name since 1975, about 1,400 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Nams
- Nam June Paik (1932–2006)American video art pioneer
- Nam Joo-hyuk (born 1994)South Korean actor and model
- Nam Tae-hee (born 1991)South Korean association football player
- Nam Ji-hyun (born 1990)South Korean actress, singer, dancer and model
- Nam Gyu-ri (born 1984)South Korean singer and actress
- Nam Hyun-Hee (born 1981)South Korean foil fencer
- Nam Sang-mi (born 1984)South Korean actress
- Nam Woo-hyun (born 1991)South Korean singer and actor
People named Nam with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nam is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nam is most concentrated in California (7.0×), Texas (3.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1984
The most popular boys’ names the year Nam peaked:
Nam elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Nam | 115 | 6,241st |
| England and Wales boys | Nam | 67 | 2,400th |
| Poland boys | Nam | 2 birth registrations | 598th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Nam: rank by region
In 2019, Nam was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Nam | 273 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Nam among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Nam | 16 | 90 |
| Finland girls | Nam | — | 14 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Nam against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.