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{{distinguish|Nahmad}}'''Nachman''', '''Nahman''', or '''Nachmann''' (perhaps ''consoler'') is a [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] given name and an [[Ashkenazic Jewish]] surname. Compare Nahmani (Neh. 7:7), [[Nehemiah (disambiguation)#Given name|Nehemiah]], [[Nahum]] from the same trilateral root. The form Nachman was popular by the 4th century and shared by at least nine [[Talmud|Talmudic]] rabbis.

By some Jews translated into [[Italian language|Italian]] as [[Consolo]]. Derived surnames include [[Nachmani]], Nachmanovici, Nachmanoviz, Nachmanowitz, Nachmansohn, Nachmanson, Nachmanovici, Nachmanovitch, Nachmias, Nacmias, Nahmanovitch, Nahmanowitz, Nahmanson, Nahmiech, Nahmoni, Nahmuni, Nacamu, Nacamulli, Nehmuka.

Notable people with the name include:

==Given name==

* [[Rav Nachman]] (d. {{Circa|320}})
* [[Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak]] (d. 356)

*[[Nachman of Breslov]] (1712-1810)
*[[Nachman of Horodenka]] (d. 1765)
*[[Nahman Berlin]] ({{fl|18th–19th century}}), German writer
*[[Nachman Krochmal]] (1785–1840), Galician philosopher, theologian and historian
*[[Nachman Chazan]] (1813–1884), Ukrainian Orthodox Jew
*[[Nachman Goldstein]] (died 1894), Ukrainian Orthodox rabbi
*[[Nachman Syrkin]] (1868–1924), Belarusian Zionist and writer
*[[Nachman Shlomo Greenspan]] (1878–1961), Talmudic scholar
*[[Nahman Avigad]] (1905-1992)
*[[Nachman Aronszajn]] (1907–1980), Polish-American mathematician
*[[Nachman Dushanski]] (1919–2008), Lithuanian communist
*[[Nahman Raz]] (1924-2015)
*[[Nachman Bulman]] (1925–2002), American rabbi
*[[Nachman Kahana]] (born 1937), Israeli rabbi
*[[Nachman Shai]] (born 1946), Israeli journalist and politician
*[[Nachman Ben-Yehuda]] (born 1948), Israeli sociologist
*[[Nachman Wolf]] (1951–2022), Israeli Paralympic athlete
*[[Nachman Fahrner]] (born 1972), Israeli musician
*[[Nachman Seltzer]] (born 1978), Orthodox Jewish writer
==Surname==

* [[Samuel ben Nahman|Samuel bar Nahman]] (3rd-4th century)
* [[Rabbah bar Nahmani]] (d. {{Circa|320}})
* [[Nachmanides]] (13th century)
* [[Fritz Nachmann]] (born 1929), West German luger
* [[Kurt Nachmann]] (1915–1984), Austrian screenwriter and film actor
* [[Werner Nachmann]] (1925 – 1988), German entrepreneur and politician
*[[Gerald Nachman]] (born 1938), American journalist and writer
*[[Ron Nachman]] (1942–2013), Israeli politician
*[[Jerry Nachman]] (1946–2004), American journalist
*[[Dana Nachman]], American documentary filmmaker
*[[Jim Nachman]], American politician
*[[Rod Nachman]], Alabama lawyer

===Fictional characters===
*Raphael Nachman, fictional mathematician in the late stories of [[Leonard Michaels]]

==See also==
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[[Category:Surnames of Jewish origin]]
[[Category:Yiddish-language surnames]]