Naina
Naina was given to 34 girls in 2025, #4,241 among girls’ names; 764 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Naina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Naina is “a female given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit नैना (nainā).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Naina?
#4,241 among girls’ names, 2025
Naina fell from #4,203 in 2015 to #4,241 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 19.6 to 21.2 per million.
50 babies in 2016, the peak
Naina peaked in 2016, when 50 girls were given it, #3,267 among girls’ names. The 34 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,241 | 21.2 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,320 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,425 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,437 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,920 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,124 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,997 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,961 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,776 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,267 | 28.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,203 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,734 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,185 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,009 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,647 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,067 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,048 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,728 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,634 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,055 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,665 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,062 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,895 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,020 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,786 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,662 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,272 | 5.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,693 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,327 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,366 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,829 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,567 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,805 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,573 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Naina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Naina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naina, and how old are they?
An estimated 758 Americans named Naina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,270 people named Naina (1,223 women and girls, 47 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 568 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Naina born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | #1,780 | 0.5× |
| California | 6 | #3,006 | 1.1× |
Where Naina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Naina is most over-represented in California: since 1984 it was given 1.1 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 Naina 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 16,330 babies since 1880, Naina is the fifth most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 651 babies (5.2%), the fourth 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 Naina
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 Naina and names like it
- Compare Naina and NayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNaina peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naina since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Naina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Naina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Naina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.