Nanea
Nanea was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,407 among girls’ names; 230 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nanea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nanea mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Nanea is “a female given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the sense “fascinating” (nanea).
From nanea (“fascinating”).
/naˈne.a/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nanea?
#14,407 among girls’ names, 2025
Nanea entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,407 in 2025.
15 babies in 2009, the peak
Nanea peaked in 2009, when 15 girls were given it, #8,330 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,407 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,296 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,877 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,917 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,075 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,955 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,116 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,756 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,544 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,707 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 14 | #8,506 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,635 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,330 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,901 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,359 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,583 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,210 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,459 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,898 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,866 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,880 | 5.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,223 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,998 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,660 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nanea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nanea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nanea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nanea, and how old are they?
An estimated 228 Americans named Nanea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 232 people named Nanea (226 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 191 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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).
Where are babies named Nanea born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 126 | not ranked | 141.3× |
Where Nanea is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nanea is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1991 it was given 141.3 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 Nanea 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 16,277 babies since 1880, Nanea is the eighth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 596 babies (1.0%), the seventh 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 Nanea
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 Nanea and names like it
- Compare Nanea and NayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNanea peaked in 2009.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nanea since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Nanea: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Nanea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nanea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.