Nalini
Nalini was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,899 among girls’ names; 355 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nalini by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nalini?
#9,899 among girls’ names, 2025
Nalini fell from #8,791 in 2015 to #9,899 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 6.2 per million.
19 babies in 2012, the peak
Nalini peaked in 2012, when 19 girls were given it, #6,796 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,899 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,064 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,530 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,179 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,867 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,594 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,099 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,403 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,653 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,791 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #9,370 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,439 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,796 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,942 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,004 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,766 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,837 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,000 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,660 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,853 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,487 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,800 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,791 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,892 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,856 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,845 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,371 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,496 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,091 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,476 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,002 | 3.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,579 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,079 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,967 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,725 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,779 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,188 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,049 | 5.5 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,009 | 3.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,393 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,812 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nalini a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nalini has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nalini: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nalini, and how old are they?
An estimated 348 Americans named Nalini and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,291 people named Nalini (2,263 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 298 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.7 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,962 babies since 1880, Nalini is the fourth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 1,285 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Nalini
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 Nalini and names like it
- Compare Nalini and NalaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nalini since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Nalini.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nalini alive today were born 1997-2012.
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