Nanea

#14,407 in 2025Girls' name

Fascinating

Nanea has been given to 230 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #14,407 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Nanea, 2025

1 in 553,000

Nanea over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nanea: meaning, origin, and history

Fascinating

Hawaiian

What Nanea means

Nanea means “fascinating”, associated with nanea.

Origin, language, and formation

Nanea is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Nanea is pronounced /naˈne.a/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 230 girls were recorded with the name Nanea between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2009; its best national rank was #8,210 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #13,075 in 2020 to #14,407 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 Nanea?

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: #14,407; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 382,984 kids; Even odds of a second one

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

When Naneas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nanea was born before 2009 — so the typical Nanea is around 16 today.

Median birth year: 2009; About 16 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 44.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 93.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 230; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (102).

Is Nanea 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: −6,111; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,332; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 40.0%; Peak was 2009 (15)
Years since peak: 16; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 49.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,210; 2005

Spellings of Nanea

Nanea is not the most common spelling — Nancy is, with 23.3% against Nanea's <0.01%.

Nancy23.3%1,004,448
Anna21.2%914,859
Janet12.9%556,776
Jane8.8%379,876
Wanda6.5%281,214
Dana4.5%193,555
Nina3.1%133,788
Tanya2.7%116,855

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 Nanea is used

Across 1910–2025, Nanea was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 3,704 girls, against 1 in 3,666 across all states with data.

2727 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 3,704

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

Nanea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #14,407
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,332
Best rank ever: #8,210; 2005
Peak year: 2009; 15 that year
First recorded: 1991
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 230
Count in 2025: 6

Names similar to Nanea

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

Nanami Nanna Nandi Nansi Nani Lanea Nance Nanie Nanayaa Atenea Nanda Lenea Nanny Monea Nandita Tenea Alinea Linea Anea Nandini Nanetta Denea Nancey Lynea

Sibling names for Nanea

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Abagail Shyann Halie Sydni Allyssa Sydnie Rhianna Alysa

For a brother

Aaden Kale Brennen Gavyn Jerimiah Jarod Keven Jamarcus

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