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Nani

#5,185 in 2025Girls' name

Beauty

Nani has been given to 693 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #5,185 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Nani, 2025

1 in 133,000

Nani over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nani: meaning, origin, and history

Beauty

Hawaiian

What Nani means

Nani means “beauty”, associated with nani.

Origin, language, and formation

Nani is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Nani is pronounced /ˈna.ni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 693 girls were recorded with the name Nani between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2021; its best national rank was #3,856 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,620 in 2020 to #5,185 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,884 in 2015 to #5,185 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 Nani?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,185
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nani 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nanis were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
682
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Choose a decade

2010s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (191).

Is Nani 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
−84
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−565
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,699
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.1%
Peak was 2021 (39)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,856
2021

Spellings of Nani

Nani is not the most common spelling — Nancy is, with 26.4% against Nani'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 Nani is used

Across 1910–2025, Nani was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 550,725 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Nani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nani around the world

Where Nani 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.

  • France
    2008–2010
    #5,967
    in 2010

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Nani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,185
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 565
Best rank ever
#3,856
2021
Peak year
2021
39 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
693
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Nani

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

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Sibling names for Nani

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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