Nandi
Nandi was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,044 among girls’ names; 857 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nandi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nandi?
#7,044 among girls’ names, 2025
Nandi rose from #7,883 in 2015 to #7,044 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 10.0 per million.
54 babies in 1991, the peak
Nandi peaked in 1991, when 54 girls were given it, #2,373 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,044 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,845 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,357 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,904 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,533 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,847 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,927 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,625 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,457 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,895 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,883 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,736 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,047 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,539 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,036 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,969 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,585 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,354 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,986 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,499 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,736 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,342 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,235 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,034 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,527 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,492 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,769 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,615 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,867 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,202 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,059 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,502 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,327 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 52 | #2,473 | 28.2 |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,373 | 28.8 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,867 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,288 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,597 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,627 | 6.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,565 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,335 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,368 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,409 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nandi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nandi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nandi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nandi, and how old are they?
An estimated 844 Americans named Nandi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 15 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 873 people named Nandi (784 women and girls, 89 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 757 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above 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 56,151 babies since 1880, Nandi is the fifth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 585 babies (2.7%), the third 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 Nandi
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 Nandi and names like it
- Compare Nandi and NadiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNandi peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nandi since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Nandi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nandi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.