Nainoa
Nainoa was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,648 among boys’ names; 621 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nainoa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nainoa?
#4,648 among boys’ names, 2025
Nainoa rose from #6,205 in 2015 to #4,648 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.3 to 12.9 per million.
33 babies in 2002, the peak
Nainoa peaked in 2002, when 33 boys were given it, #2,862 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,648 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,398 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,161 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,773 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,564 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,349 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,913 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,614 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,232 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,884 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,205 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,637 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,833 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,950 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,312 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,775 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,869 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,889 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,163 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,178 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,291 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,177 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,966 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,862 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,683 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,122 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,790 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,664 | 10.5 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,168 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,655 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,012 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,031 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,253 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,986 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,064 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,615 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,291 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,250 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nainoa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nainoa has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nainoa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nainoa, and how old are they?
An estimated 611 Americans named Nainoa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 491 people named Nainoa (10 women and girls, 481 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 526 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 Nainoa born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 12 | #77 | 164.4× |
Where Nainoa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nainoa is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1985 it was given 164.4 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 boys’ 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 Nainoa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nainoa
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 Nainoa and names like it
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- The most given names of the 2000sNainoa peaked in 2002.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nainoa since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Nainoa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nainoa alive today were born 1997-2012.
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