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Himani

#12,383 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Himani has been given to 260 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #12,383 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Himani, 2025

1 in 474,000

Himani over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Himani: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Himani means

Himani is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Himani is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 260 girls were recorded with the name Himani between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2006; its best national rank was #5,438 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,090 in 2020 to #12,383 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,524 in 2015 to #12,383 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Himani?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,383
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Himani sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Himani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Himanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Himani was born before 2008 — so the typical Himani is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
53.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
260
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 53.5% of all recorded uses (139).

Is Himani rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−896
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,707
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,141
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.0%
Peak was 2006 (25)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,438
2006

Spellings of Himani

Himani is not the most common spelling — Imani is, with 26.9% against Himani's 0.25%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Himani is used

Across 1910–2025, Himani was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,001,597 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Himani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Himani around the world

Where Himani ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2008
    #2,276
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Himani by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,383
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,707
Best rank ever
#5,438
2006
Peak year
2006
25 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
260
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Himani

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Himani

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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