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Nanami

#14,406 in 2025Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Nanami has been given to 295 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #14,406 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Nanami, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nanami: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Nanami means

Nanami is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include seven, sea.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nanami is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /nä.nä.mi/ for Nanami.

Origin, language, and formation

Nanami is used in English and French. Its origins include Japanese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Nanami is pronounced /na.na.mi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 295 girls were recorded with the name Nanami between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2009; its best national rank was #6,989 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #13,074 in 2020 to #14,406 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,662 in 2015 to #14,406 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 Nanami?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,406
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nanami 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nanami. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nanamis were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
295
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Choose a decade

2000s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Nanami 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
−7,249
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,332
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,744
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.6%
Peak was 2009 (19)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,989
2009

Spellings of Nanami

Nanami is not the most common spelling — Naomi is, with 74.1% against Nanami's 0.11%.

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 Nanami is used

Across 1910–2025, Nanami was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 381,257 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Nanami has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nanami around the world

Where Nanami 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
    1997–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • France
    2013–2013
    #5,821
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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

Nanami by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,406
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,332
Best rank ever
#6,989
2009
Peak year
2009
19 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
295
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Nanami

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

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Sibling names for Nanami

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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