Nalu
Nalu is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 16 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,788 among girls’ names and #5,770 among boys’, #9,558 among all names counting both); 218 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nalu by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nalu?
#5,770 among boys’ names, 2025
Nalu entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #5,770 in 2025.
25 babies in 2024, the peak
Nalu peaked in 2024, when 25 babies were given it (11 boys, #7,593 among boys’ names). The 23 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 92% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,788 | 16 | #5,770 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,847 | 11 | #7,593 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,059 | 12 | #7,164 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 14 | #6,376 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,942 | 13 | #6,565 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,071 | 11 | #7,350 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 9 | #8,665 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 10 | #7,982 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #13,648 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 11 | #7,460 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,425 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 8 | #9,391 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 5 | #13,609 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 7 | #10,417 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 9 | #8,579 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,593 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 6 | #12,097 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 7 | #10,312 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #11,048 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #11,761 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Nalu a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 218 Americans recorded as Nalu, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nalu: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nalu, and how old are they?
An estimated 216 Americans named Nalu and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 209 people named Nalu (41 women and girls, 168 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 105 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 300 babies since 1880, Nalu is the most given (73% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 41 babies (56%), again the 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 Nalu
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 Nalu and names like it
- Compare Nalu and NaloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNalu peaked in 2024.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nalu since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Nalu.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nalu alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.