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Naledi

#9,897 in 2025Girls' name

Star

Naledi has been given to 65 babies in the U.S. since 2010. In 2025 it ranked #9,897 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Naledi, 2025

1 in 332,000

Naledi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naledi: meaning, origin, and history

Star

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Naledi means

Naledi means “star”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 65 girls were recorded with the name Naledi between 2010 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2019; its best national rank was #9,553 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,795 in 2020 to #9,897 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,336 in 2015 to #9,897 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.

How common is Naledi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,897
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naledi 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naledi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Naledis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Naledi was born before 2020 — so the typical Naledi is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
55.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
65
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 55.4% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Naledi 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
+7,054
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,898
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+8,439
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.9%
Peak was 2019 (11)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
56.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,553
2019

Spellings of Naledi

Naledi is not the most common spelling — Nayeli is, with 55.8% against Naledi's 0.15%.

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.

Naledi around the world

Where Naledi 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
    2004–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025

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

Naledi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,897
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,898
Best rank ever
#9,553
2019
Peak year
2019
11 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
65
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Naledi

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

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Sibling names for Naledi

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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