Nahum Forename
38,415th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 19,601 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Mexico
Highest density in:
Honduras
Nahum Forename Definition:
A male name. Hebrew ‘comforter’, the name of one of the Hebrew prophets, sometimes used as a christian name since the Reformation, e.g. Nahum Tate (1652-1715), the author of the metrical psalms.
Nahum Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 99% | 9,667 | 1:12,842 | 995 |
| Indonesia | - | 1,695 | 1:152,191 | 15,738 |
| United States | 100% | 1,479 | 1:245,123 | 8,167 |
| Honduras | 100% | 969 | 1:9,100 | 942 |
| Nigeria | 99% | 864 | 1:205,514 | 8,835 |
| Kenya | 89% | 568 | 1:81,527 | 4,664 |
| El Salvador | - | 458 | 1:13,847 | 887 |
| Peru | 100% | 327 | 1:97,222 | 3,538 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 293 | 1:103,078 | 4,650 |
| Colombia | 94% | 279 | 1:171,251 | 4,339 |
| Haiti | 100% | 273 | 1:39,293 | 2,757 |
| Brazil | 100% | 272 | 1:787,633 | 22,308 |
| Philippines | 95% | 260 | 1:407,729 | 14,505 |
| Spain | 100% | 259 | 1:179,652 | 3,868 |
| India | 100% | 234 | 1:5,191,786 | 195,989 |
| Chile | 71% | 212 | 1:83,053 | 2,313 |
| Tanzania | 97% | 208 | 1:253,790 | 9,541 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 182 | 1:33,068 | 1,946 |
| DR Congo | 59% | 151 | 1:488,925 | 17,342 |
| Congo | 89% | 141 | 1:35,526 | 2,991 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 130 | 1:80,241 | 4,513 |
| Namibia | - | 93 | 1:25,851 | 2,160 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 62 | 1:259,813 | 3,354 |
| Canada | 100% | 47 | 1:704,965 | 16,240 |
| England | 100% | 44 | 1:1,263,703 | 19,202 |
| Ecuador | - | 39 | 1:454,536 | 5,095 |
| Argentina | 95% | 33 | 1:1,296,159 | 5,960 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 30 | 1:158,932 | 4,109 |
| South Africa | 89% | 30 | 1:1,817,755 | 56,088 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 26 | 1:831,173 | 23,165 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 26 | 1:22,344 | 1,767 |
| Panama | 100% | 21 | 1:186,027 | 7,386 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 19 | 1:429,069 | 33,046 |
| Benin | 100% | 14 | 1:755,417 | 21,293 |
| Australia | - | 13 | 1:1,050,586 | 12,238 |
| Uganda | 75% | 13 | 1:3,150,532 | 34,391 |
| Uruguay | - | 11 | 1:311,603 | 4,655 |
| Israel | 75% | 9 | 1:933,658 | 13,501 |
| France | 100% | 9 | 1:7,385,593 | 25,788 |
| Germany | 100% | 9 | 1:10,741,986 | 35,913 |
| Italy | 100% | 8 | 1:7,632,761 | 27,464 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 8 | 1:2,884,492 | 56,420 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 8 | 1:170,177 | 9,829 |
| Liberia | 100% | 8 | 1:551,508 | 14,444 |
| Belgium | - | 6 | 1:1,915,007 | 18,066 |
| Zambia | - | 5 | 1:3,170,959 | 26,788 |
| Qatar | 100% | 5 | 1:473,921 | 38,106 |
| Malaysia | 67% | 5 | 1:6,089,988 | 140,568 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 4 | 1:2,053,374 | 18,217 |
| Thailand | 100% | 4 | 1:17,516,453 | 200,944 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Sweden | 100% | 4 | 1:2,464,477 | 34,955 |
| Russia | - | 3 | 1:48,077,901 | 98,779 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 3 | 1:7,923,227 | 99,341 |
| Cambodia | 67% | 3 | 1:5,424,443 | 41,412 |
| Bulgaria | - | 3 | 1:2,330,130 | 16,302 |
| Jamaica | - | 3 | 1:961,076 | 14,069 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 2 | 1:97,178,840 | 228,758 |
| Lesotho | - | 2 | 1:1,019,998 | 36,117 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 2 | 1:88,908 | 5,280 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 2 | 1:3,575,996 | 76,635 |
| Zimbabwe | 50% | 2 | 1:7,711,908 | 84,647 |
| Japan | - | 2 | 1:63,993,028 | 72,606 |
| Belize | 100% | 2 | 1:177,154 | 5,935 |
| Guyana | - | 2 | 1:381,631 | 18,312 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 2 | 1:9,189,734 | 69,235 |
| Greece | 100% | 2 | 1:5,467,274 | 17,678 |
| Luxembourg | - | 2 | 1:282,024 | 3,520 |
| China | - | 1 | 1:1,366,055,782 | 109,249 |
| Iran | - | 1 | 1:78,496,868 | 65,150 |
| Grenada | 100% | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Estonia | 100% | 1 | 1:1,315,380 | 8,883 |
| Czechia | - | 1 | 1:10,656,162 | 11,509 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Ukraine | - | 1 | 1:45,499,908 | 32,056 |
| Chad | 100% | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Belarus | 100% | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Norway | - | 1 | 1:5,132,329 | 37,513 |
| Sudan | 100% | 1 | 1:37,806,975 | 10,689 |
| South Korea | - | 1 | 1:5,544,421 | 37,250 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 1 | 1:5,627,571 | 19,299 |
| Afghanistan | - | 1 | 1:32,623,516 | 66,536 |
| Senegal | 100% | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1 | 1:30,812,565 | 27,537 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| Malawi | - | 1 | 1:17,112,310 | 24,110 |
| Monaco | 100% | 1 | 1:38,466 | 2,379 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| Nepal | 100% | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Netherlands | - | 1 | 1:16,902,083 | 43,152 |
| New Zealand | - | 1 | 1:4,536,044 | 17,392 |
Nahum (4,246) may also be a surname.
Nahum Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Hebrew ‘comforter’, the name of one of the Hebrew prophets, sometimes used as a christian name since the Reformation, e.g. Nahum Tate (1652-1715), the author of the metrical psalms.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
M. Hebrew, ‘(a source of) comfort.’ Now rare, it was notorious, in the person of Nahum Tate, the mutilator of Shakespeare’s Lear and Everyman’s hymns.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Nay'-hum, comforter, penitent, their guide. The seventh of the twelve lesser prophets, a native of Elkosh, a little village of Galilee.
— The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar
Meaning: comforted.
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
A Hebrew name, meaning: Compassionate: rich in comfort [is God].
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
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