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Nirali

Girls' name

From Hindi निराली; literal meaning unconfirmed

Nirali has been given to 339 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 1993, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Nirali, 2023

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nirali: meaning, origin, and history

From Hindi निराली; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nirali means

Nirali is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hindi निराली (nirālī), meaning unique or different.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Nirali is used in English.

Nirali comes through Hindi निराली.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 339 girls were recorded with the name Nirali between 1978 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1993; its best national rank was #5,130 in 1993.

How common is Nirali?

Nirali had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 229,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
328,234 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nirali 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 2023 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 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nirali. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Niralis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nirali was born before 1996 — so the typical Nirali is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
339
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.4% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Nirali 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 1993 (19)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,130
1993

Spellings of Nirali

Nirali is not the most common spelling — Natali is, with 74.5% against Nirali's 5.2%.

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 Nirali is used

Across 1910–2025, Nirali was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 825,847 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 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. Nirali has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nirali around the world

Where Nirali 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
    1996–2010
    #4,688
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nirali 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
—
Best rank ever
#5,130
1993
Peak year
1993
19 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
339
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nirali

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

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Sibling names for Nirali

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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