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Ndidi

Girls' name

Patience

Ndidi has been given to 65 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 1981, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Ndidi, 2001

1 in 624,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ndidi: meaning, origin, and history

Patience

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ndidi means

Ndidi means “patience”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ndidi is used in Igbo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 65 girls were recorded with the name Ndidi between 1978 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1981; its best national rank was #7,809 in 1983.

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 Ndidi?

Ndidi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 624,000
6 of 3,742,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 300,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
432,315 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ndidi 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 2001 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 432,315 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ndidi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ndidis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ndidi was born before 1985 — so the typical Ndidi is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
53.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
65
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Ndidi 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (8)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,809
1983

Spellings of Ndidi

Ndidi is not the most common spelling — Heidi is, with 87.4% against Ndidi's 0.04%.

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.

Ndidi around the world

Where Ndidi 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
    1999–1999
    #3,900
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1987–1987
    #684
    in 1987

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.

Ndidi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,809
1983
Peak year
1981
8 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
65
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ndidi

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

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Sibling names for Ndidi

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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