Nana — #7576 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Nana

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,514 babies named Nana between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nana currently holds the #7576 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 47 babies received it in a single year. Nana is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 850 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nana performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 345 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Nana shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 242 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Nana in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nana 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 2,514 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.