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Nagi

#9,439 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Nagi has been given to 131 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #9,439 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Nagi, 2025

1 in 414,000

Nagi over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nagi: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nagi means

Nagi has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Nagi

A separate documented entry treats Nagi as a alternate transcription of Naji. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

One of the source’s documented entries for Nagi records a meaning of calm.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 126 boys were recorded with the name Nagi between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2024; its best national rank was #8,122 in 1992.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,660 in 2015 to #9,439 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Nagi between 2021 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2021; its best national rank was #16,934 in 2021.

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.

How common is Nagi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,439
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nagi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nagi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nagis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nagi was born before 2011 — so the typical Nagi is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
126
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Nagi 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
−1,300
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,221
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.0%
Peak was 2024 (10)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,122
1992

Spellings of Nagi

Nagi is not the most common spelling — Kai is, with 21.2% against Nagi's 0.04%.

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.

Nagi around the world

Where Nagi 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.

  • France
    1980–2004
    #4,796
    in 2004

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Nagi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,439
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,122
1992
Peak year
2024
10 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
126
Count in 2025
8

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,934
2021
Peak year
2021
5 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nagi

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

NageeShragiNaguanOhagiCragi

Sibling names for Nagi

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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