Nami
Nami was given to 156 girls in 2025, #1,404 among girls’ names; 1,185 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Nami and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nami by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nami?
#1,404 among girls’ names, 2025
Nami rose from #4,822 in 2015 to #1,404 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.2 to 97.1 per million.
156 babies in 2025, the peak
Nami peaked in 2025, when 156 girls were given it, #1,404 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 145 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 156 | #1,404 | 97.1 |
| 2024 | 145 | #1,502 | 89.5 |
| 2023 | 137 | #1,553 | 85.4 |
| 2022 | 109 | #1,866 | 66.5 |
| 2021 | 90 | #2,115 | 54.8 |
| 2020 | 73 | #2,412 | 45.2 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,535 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,330 | 28.2 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,972 | 22.0 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,138 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,822 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,580 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,262 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,507 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,495 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,420 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,329 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,994 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,383 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,725 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,665 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,764 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,051 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,878 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,390 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,072 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,368 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,106 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,361 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,025 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,834 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,488 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,842 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,469 | 4.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,670 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nami a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,185 Americans recorded as Nami, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 156 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nami: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nami, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,185 Americans ever recorded as Nami. The median Nami alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,003 people named Nami (919 women and girls, 84 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 477 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 47 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 167 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 963 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Nami born?
The states with the most babies named Nami are California, Texas and New York, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 22 | #1,178 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,515 | 0.7× |
| New York | 14 | #1,072 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,649 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 8 | #786 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,316 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,012 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,357 | 0.4× |
| Hawaii | 6 | #156 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,302 | 0.3× |
Where Nami is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nami is most over-represented in California: since 1983 it was given 1.1 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 girls’ 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 Nami with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 207,578 babies since 1880, Nami is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 156 of their 5,130 babies (3.0%), the second 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 Nami
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 Nami and names like it
- Compare Nami and NaomiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNami peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nami since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Nami.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nami alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.