Nepali Names

Explore names documented in Nepali naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1939.

322#847
Up 317 rank positions in five years
1972

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1935.

—Unranked
—
1975

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1967.

615#490
Up 70 rank positions in five years
2014

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1964.

65#2,652
Down 494 rank positions in five years
2005

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1974.

207#1,059
Up 154 rank positions in five years
2023

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1958.

—Unranked
—
1978

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1910.

19#6,280
Down 994 rank positions in five years
1965

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1987.

195#1,100
Down 41 rank positions in five years
2019

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1966.

11#9,370
Up 786 rank positions in five years
2003

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1974.

30#3,737
Down 337 rank positions in five years
2010

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2000.

152#1,289
Up 355 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

13#6,751
Down 504 rank positions in five years
2003

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1969.

—Unranked
—
1994

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1992.

34#3,417
Up 1,960 rank positions in five years
2023

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1963.

—Unranked
—
1983

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1967.

—Unranked
—
1979

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1961.

—Unranked
—
1984

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1970.

—Unranked
—
1991

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1977.

—Unranked
—
2002

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1980.

—Unranked
—
1997

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1983.

—Unranked
—
2004

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1969.

—Unranked
—
1981

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2006.

8#9,395
new
2024

Documented Nepali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2010.

—Unranked
—
2012

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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