Nanna
Nanna was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 241 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nanna mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Nanna is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the senses “brave, daring” (*nanþ-) and “to dare” (*ninþaną).
From Old Norse Nanna, with Norse levelling of -nþ- to -nn- from Proto-Germanic *nanþ- (“brave, daring”), related to *ninþaną (“to dare”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nanna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,999, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1925, the peak
Nanna peaked in 1925, when 12 girls were given it, #2,888 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #14,999 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,836 | 3.3 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,154 | 3.3 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,797 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,792 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,239 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,155 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,475 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,211 | 5.2 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,704 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 6 | #4,155 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,409 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,050 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,078 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,060 | 6.1 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,677 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,888 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,900 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,566 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,918 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,044 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,946 | 9.7 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,158 | 6.0 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,344 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,570 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,551 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,942 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,127 | 16.7 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,347 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,500 | 25.6 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,589 | 23.5 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,475 | 27.0 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,255 | 34.3 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,120 | 38.8 |
| 1882 | 5 | #997 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 43 Americans named Nanna 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 282 people named Nanna (272 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 59 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.8 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 41,175 babies since 1880, Nanna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 565 babies recorded by SSA was a Nanna (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 Nanna and names like it
- Compare Nanna and NannieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sNanna peaked in 1925.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Nanna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Nanna.
- Names starting with NMost given first.