Namon
Masculine
Namon may be a worn-down Naaman and may be nothing at all. It appears in American records without explanation, in the same communities and the same decades as a long list of other short names nobody can trace, and no family document has ever been produced that settles it.
How old is the name Namon?
Namon first appears in US birth records in 1884 — 141 years ago. The typical Namon alive today was born around 1945, making them about 80 years old. About 500 people named Namon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Namon most popular?
Namon peaked in 1884, reaching #848 nationally. See the whole 1884 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Namon
The Naaman of the Book of Kings is worth the detour whether or not he is behind this name. He was a Syrian general with a skin disease who came to Israel for a cure, was told by a prophet who would not even come out to meet him to wash seven times in the Jordan, and left in a fury, because the rivers at home were better rivers and he had expected something more impressive than a bath. His servants talked him round on the grounds that he would certainly have done something difficult if he had been asked, so he might as well do something easy. It is one of the few stories in the Hebrew Bible whose point is that the cure was insultingly simple.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source can be established. The resemblance to the Hebrew Naaman is close enough to be worth stating and far too loose to be treated as a derivation; the vowels do not correspond in any regular way, and the biblical name is rare in the American record while this one is not quite.
Pronouncing Namon
NAY-mun
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The second is reduced to nothing, which is why the record also holds Naman and Nayman with no audible difference.
Nicknames for Namon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1884
- Most boys named
- 192722 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #848reached in 1884
- Change vs 2010
- +60.0%8 in 2013, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Namons among us
people named Namon are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Namon sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Short, firm and easy to spell once heard, with nothing silent in it.
- It is genuinely rare while containing no unfamiliar sound.
- It goes with almost any surname.
- It will be heard as Damon and Norman, both far commoner.
- There is no meaning to give a child who asks.
- It belongs to the oldest layer of the American record and reads that way.
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Frequently asked
- How many Namons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Namon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Namon in 2025?
- Namon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Namon with classmates?
- Namon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More N names
The most-given names starting with N, all years combined.
Nicholas#112 · Nathan#63 · Noah#2 · Nathaniel#140 · Norman#1196 · Nolan#65 · Neil#850 · Nicolas#177
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