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The first name 
Nachum

Nachum is a male first name.

Nachum – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Nachum in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Nachum in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Nachum by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Nachum ranks at #6,726. That means there are 6,725 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Nachum.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Nachum

Nachum -
at home in New Jersey and New York

Meeting a man or boy named Nachum is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Nachum can be found in only two: New Jersey and New York. No other state currently has residents named Nachum. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Nachum living in one state or another. (If your name is Nachum and you live outside of New Jersey or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Nachum is in New York, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00061% of all male residents are called Nachum – that’s just one in 163,668! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 100 men going by that name. So, if your name is Nachum, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Nachum has 6 letters 
and begins with an N

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.0% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an N. This means that N as the first letter for boys' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With six letters, the name Nachum is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, if 3.0% of all boys’ names start with an N, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with N that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Nicholas.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Nachum

If your name is Nachum and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Nachum

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nachum, you can simply say:

Nut

Apple

Cat

Hat

Unicorn

Mouse

This is how the name Nachum is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Nachum in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Nachum

Nachum

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Nachum

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Nachum is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

N
A
C
H
U
M

Have you ever waved the name Nachum

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

N
A
C
H
U
M

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Nachum sounds like this: