Given name & surname · also German
Name
Name is a given name from Middle High German, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic. It is used in German.
Original GermanZuname
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Name comes from Middle High German, and ultimately from Proto-West Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Middle High German name, from Old High German namo, from Proto-West Germanic *namō.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Name through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 34
- 23 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 10 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 439 as a surname in 2000.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Name’s family of names
In German usage, Name shares a linguistic root with the Yiddish form נאָמען. In English usage, Name as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Korean form 손.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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