Nalina
Nalina was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,779 among girls’ names; 167 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nalina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nalina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nalina is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nalina?
#7,779 among girls’ names, 2025
Nalina rose from #10,649 in 2015 to #7,779 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 8.7 per million.
14 babies in 2025, the peak
Nalina peaked in 2025, when 14 girls were given it, #7,779 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 9 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,779 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,844 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,825 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,471 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,732 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,810 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,050 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,154 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,662 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,541 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,649 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,814 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,460 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,877 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,359 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,542 | 4.2 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,572 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,203 | 3.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,103 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,841 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,950 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nalina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nalina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nalina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nalina, and how old are they?
An estimated 165 Americans named Nalina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 221 people named Nalina (213 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 108 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,754 babies since 1880, Nalina is the third most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 808 babies (1.7%), again the third most given.
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 Nalina
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 Nalina and names like it
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