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Nalini

#9,899 in 2025Girls' name

Lotus

Nalini has been given to 355 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #9,899 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Nalini, 2025

1 in 332,000

Nalini over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nalini: meaning, origin, and history

Lotus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nalini means

Nalini means “lotus”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 355 girls were recorded with the name Nalini between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2012; its best national rank was #6,079 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,594 in 2020 to #9,899 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,791 in 2015 to #9,899 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 Nalini?

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
#9,899
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nalini 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 Nalini. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nalinis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nalini was born before 2007 — so the typical Nalini is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
355
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (99).

Is Nalini 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
+3,165
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,695
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,108
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.6%
Peak was 2012 (19)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,079
1983

Spellings of Nalini

Nalini is not the most common spelling — Nadine is, with 27.7% against Nalini's 0.18%.

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 Nalini is used

Across 1910–2025, Nalini was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,782,448 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Nalini has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nalini around the world

Where Nalini 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
    2002–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1994–2023
    #5,372
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2010–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #711
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Nalini by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,899
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,695
Best rank ever
#6,079
1983
Peak year
2012
19 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
355
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Nalini

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

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Sibling names for Nalini

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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