Nechama
Nechama reached its high-water mark in 2022 at number 1,548, and has been recorded 4,030 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,684th. About 4,000 Nechamas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Nechama
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,030
- Estimated living today
- 4,000
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 1,548th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,684th
- First recorded
- 1950
How old the living Nechamas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,030 babies given the name since 1950, about 4,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 20 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 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 Nechamas
- Nechama Leibowitz (1905–1997)Israeli biblical scholar
- Nechama Tec (1931–2023)Polish historian
- Nechama Rivlin (1945–2019)First lady of Israel
People named Nechama with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nechama is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nechama is most concentrated in New Jersey (14.0×), New York (7.4×), Maryland (0.9×), California (0.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular girls’ names the year Nechama peaked:
Nechama elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Nechama | 185 | 2,325th |
| Switzerland girls | Nechama | 17 | 892nd |
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.
Nechama: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Nechama | 16 | 0.001% | 688th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Nechama | 1 | 0.002% | 162nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Related names
Nechama against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.