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Nandan

#11,583 in 2025Boys' name

Son

Nandan has been given to 169 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #11,583 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Nandan, 2025

1 in 553,000

Nandan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nandan: meaning, origin, and history

Son

Sanskrit

What Nandan means

Nandan means “son”, associated with nandana.

Origin, language, and formation

Nandan is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 169 boys were recorded with the name Nandan between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2015; its best national rank was #5,659 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,456 in 2020 to #11,583 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,659 in 2015 to #11,583 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 Nandan?

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 boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,583
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nandan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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

When Nandans were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
62.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
169
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 62.7% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Nandan 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
−2,816
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,873
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,924
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.5%
Peak was 2015 (16)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,659
2015

Spellings of Nandan

Nandan is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 56.4% against Nandan'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 Nandan is used

Across 1910–2025, Nandan was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Nandan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nandan around the world

Where Nandan 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
    2010–2010
    #2,941
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nandan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,583
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,873
Best rank ever
#5,659
2015
Peak year
2015
16 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
169
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Nandan

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

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Sibling names for Nandan

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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