Naum
Fewer than 70 men in Poland carry this name, and no boy has been given it since 2000: most Poles have never met one. It comes from Hebrew, where it means "comfort".
Naum Pronunciation
Naum is pronounced NAH-oom (/ˈnaum/).
What Naum means
Where Naum comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Naum grows from Hebrew, from the root that means to comfort and to console. The short meaning stays close to that root: comfort, or in Polish pocieszenie, pocieszyciel. The oldest bearer is the prophet Nahum, whose brief book in the Hebrew Bible foretells the fall of Nineveh.
Slavic tradition kept the shorter form Naum. Saint Naum of Ohrid, a disciple of Cyril and Methodius, founded a monastery on the shore of Lake Ohrid in the year 905, and his feast falls on 20 June. That is a fact you can check on a map of North Macedonia.
In Poland the name is rare. It arrives with no diminutives and no variants, so the meaning does the work of explaining it. A child called Naum in a class register stands a little apart. Comfort. The one who consoles.
How many people are named Naum
1 in 323427 men in Poland is named Naum. 66 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4485 among male names.
Naum as a middle name
Naum is a first name for 66 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 92/8 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4373rd, between Natán (6) and Nazmi (6).
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#4371 Natalio6
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#4372 Natán6
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#4373 Naum6
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#4374 Nazmi6
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#4375 Nazmul6