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Nami

#1,404 in 2025Girls' name

Beautiful

Nami has been given to 1,185 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #1,404 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 156 recorded.

Babies named Nami, 2025

1 in 21,300

Nami over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nami: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nami means

Nami means “beautiful”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,172 girls were recorded with the name Nami between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 156 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,404 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,412 in 2020 to #1,404 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,822 in 2015 to #1,404 in 2025.

In the United States, 13 boys were recorded with the name Nami between 2023 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2023; its best national rank was #10,460 in 2023.

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 Nami?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,300
156 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,404
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,731 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nami 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,731 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nami. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Namis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nami was born before 2021 — so the typical Nami is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
60.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,172
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 60.6% of all recorded uses (710).

Is Nami 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
+98
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,008
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,418
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (156)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,404
2025

Spellings of Nami

Nami is not the most common spelling — Amy is, with 34.8% against Nami's 0.06%.

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 Nami is used

Across 2016–2025, Nami was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 21,099 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

123 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 4,348
  2. 2California1 in 12,500
  3. 3Georgia1 in 16,667
  4. 4Arizona1 in 20,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 20,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 20,000
  7. 7New York1 in 20,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 20,000

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.

Nami around the world

Where Nami 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
    2017–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    2004–2025
    #1,614
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–1979
    #436
    in 1979

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.

Nami by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,404
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,008
Best rank ever
#1,404
2025
Peak year
2025
156 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,172
Count in 2025
156

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,460
2023
Peak year
2023
7 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nami

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

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Sibling names for Nami

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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