Nanda
Nanda was last recorded in 2004, when 5 babies were given it; 70 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nanda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nanda mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Nanda is “a diminutive of the female given name Fernanda”
/ˈnɐ̃.dɐ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nanda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,875, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1976, the peak
Nanda peaked in 1976, when 9 girls were given it, #6,410 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 7 | #8,875 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,331 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,241 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,410 | 6.1 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,213 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,931 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,652 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,474 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,158 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,979 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 5 | #5,870 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nanda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 70 Americans recorded as Nanda, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nanda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nanda, and how old are they?
An estimated 60 Americans named Nanda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,121 people named Nanda (647 women and girls, 474 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 63 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17.8 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 58,710 babies since 1880, Nanda is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 606 babies recorded by SSA was a Nanda (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Nanda and names like it
- Compare Nanda and NadiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNanda peaked in 1976.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Nanda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Nanda.
- Names starting with NMost given first.