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Naina

#4,241 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Naina has been given to 764 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #4,241 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Naina, 2025

1 in 97,500

Naina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naina: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Naina means

Naina is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Naina is used in English and Faroese. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 764 girls were recorded with the name Naina between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,267 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,124 in 2020 to #4,241 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,203 in 2015 to #4,241 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 Naina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 47,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,241
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naina 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nainas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Naina was born before 2014 — so the typical Naina is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
764
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Choose a decade

2010s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (288).

Is Naina 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
−921
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+883
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−38
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.97×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.0%
Peak was 2016 (50)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,267
2016

Spellings of Naina

Naina is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 28.4% against Naina's 0.02%.

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 Naina is used

Across 1910–2025, Naina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 294,872 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —
  6. 6Washington1 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. Naina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Naina around the world

Where Naina 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
    #1,407
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2005
    #577
    in 2005
  • France
    2005–2025
    #5,288
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Naina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,241
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 883
Best rank ever
#3,267
2016
Peak year
2016
50 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
764
Count in 2025
34

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