Naoki
Naoki was last recorded in 2024, when 13 babies were given it; 337 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naoki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Naoki?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,591, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 2011, the peak
Naoki peaked in 2011, when 19 babies were given it (14 boys, #6,150 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,591 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,553 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,735 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,473 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,617 | 9.3 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,615 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,446 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,605 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,299 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,950 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #10,390 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,611 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,150 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,395 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,010 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,977 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,538 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,768 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,840 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,681 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,211 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,070 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,950 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,923 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,089 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,538 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,047 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,014 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,713 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,653 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,770 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,395 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,227 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,711 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,556 | 4.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,466 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,036 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,949 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Naoki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 337 Americans recorded as Naoki, 4% are girls and 96% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Naoki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naoki, and how old are they?
An estimated 329 Americans named Naoki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 12 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 714 people named Naoki (35 women and girls, 679 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 292 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,709 babies since 1880, Naoki is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 none of their 76 babies recorded by SSA was a Naoki (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Naoki
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 Naoki and names like it
- Compare Naoki and NakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNaoki peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naoki since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Naoki.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Naoki alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.