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Nandini

#5,350 in 2025Girls' name

Daughter, epithet of Durga

Nandini has been given to 949 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #5,350 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Nandini, 2025

1 in 138,000

Nandini over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nandini: meaning, origin, and history

Daughter, epithet of Durga

Sanskrit

What Nandini means

Nandini means “daughter, epithet of Durga”, associated with nandinī.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit नन्दिनी (nandinī, “daughter, epithet of Durga”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Nandini (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Nandini is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Nandini comes through Sanskrit नन्दिनी.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Nandini is pronounced /ˈnɑn.dɪ.niː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 949 girls were recorded with the name Nandini between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 2006; its best national rank was #3,045 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,463 in 2020 to #5,350 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,372 in 2015 to #5,350 in 2025.

How common is Nandini?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,350
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nandini 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nandini. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nandinis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nandini was born before 2008 — so the typical Nandini is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
949
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.0% of all recorded uses (437).

Is Nandini 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
+2,137
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,113
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−978
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2006 (56)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,045
2006

Spellings of Nandini

Nandini is not the most common spelling — Nadine is, with 96.7% against Nandini's 1.7%.

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 Nandini is used

Across 1910–2025, Nandini was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 195,687 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —
  5. 5Virginia1 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. Nandini has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nandini around the world

Where Nandini 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
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2020
    #6,820
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Nandini by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,350
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,113
Best rank ever
#3,045
2006
Peak year
2006
56 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
949
Count in 2025
24

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Sibling names for Nandini

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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