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Naoki

Boys' name

Straight, direct + tree

Naoki has been given to 337 babies in the U.S. since 1980. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2020, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Naoki, 2024

1 in 418,000

Naoki over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naoki: meaning, origin, and history

Straight, direct + tree

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Naoki means

Naoki means “straight, direct + tree”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Naoki is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /nä.o̞.kʲi/ for Naoki.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 322 boys were recorded with the name Naoki between 1980 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2020; its best national rank was #4,395 in 1991.

In the United States, 15 girls were recorded with the name Naoki between 2010 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2010; its best national rank was #16,955 in 2024.

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.

How common is Naoki?

Naoki had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naoki 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naoki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Naokis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Naoki was born before 2004 — so the typical Naoki is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
32.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
322
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Naoki 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2020 (16)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,395
1991

Spellings of Naoki

Naoki is not the most common spelling — Nakia is, with 19.0% against Naoki's 3.1%.

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 Naoki is used

Across 1910–2025, Naoki was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

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

Naoki around the world

Where Naoki 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
    2010–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • France
    1990–2025
    #3,857
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Naoki by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,395
1991
Peak year
2020
16 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
322
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,955
2024
Peak year
2010
5 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Naoki

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

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Sibling names for Naoki

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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