Nai
Nai is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,705 among girls’ names and #11,572 among boys’, #11,252 among all names counting both); 389 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nai?
#8,705 among girls’ names, 2025
Nai rose from #9,949 in 2015 to #8,705 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 7.5 per million.
25 babies in 1981, the peak
Nai peaked in 1981, when 25 babies were given it (11 girls, #6,184 among girls’ names). The 18 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 72% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,705 | 6 | #11,572 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,372 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,633 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,959 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,724 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,123 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,377 | 5 | #13,520 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,336 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,174 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,051 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,949 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,655 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,681 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,723 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,640 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,627 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,649 | 6 | #11,600 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,135 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,772 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,400 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,306 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,982 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,379 | 5 | #9,703 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,516 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,395 | 7 | #7,031 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,988 | 5 | #9,063 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,350 | 5 | #8,817 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,185 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,591 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,232 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,053 | 6 | #6,266 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,654 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,344 | 11 | #3,792 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,780 | 6 | #6,149 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,184 | 14 | #3,163 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,192 | 6 | #6,004 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Nai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 389 Americans recorded as Nai, 79% are girls and 21% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nai, and how old are they?
An estimated 379 Americans named Nai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 9 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,949 people named Nai (1,025 women and girls, 924 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 320 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Nai rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nai born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 113 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Oregon | 5 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Nai is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nai is most over-represented in California: since 1980 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nai with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,436 babies since 1880, Nai is the eighth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 608 babies (3.0%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nai
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nai and names like it
- Compare Nai and NayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNai peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nai since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Nai.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nai alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.