Nalu — #8041 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nalu

The Social Security Administration has registered 161 babies named Nalu between 2001 and 2024, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nalu currently holds the #8041 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Nalu is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 33 additional births since 2020.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nalu performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 69 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Nalu shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 26 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Nalu in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nalu in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 161 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.