Nari
Nari was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,558 among girls’ names; 529 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nari?
#3,558 among girls’ names, 2025
Nari rose from #6,904 in 2015 to #3,558 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.1 to 26.8 per million.
44 babies in 2023, the peak
Nari peaked in 2023, when 44 girls were given it, #3,563 among girls’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,558 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,943 | 23.5 |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,563 | 27.4 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,868 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,986 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,621 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,116 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,572 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,015 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,979 | 21.4 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,904 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,375 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,444 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,983 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,277 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,086 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,586 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,415 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,360 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,244 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,057 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,493 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,191 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,869 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,787 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,895 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,199 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,598 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,965 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,944 | 3.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,059 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nari has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nari, and how old are they?
An estimated 525 Americans named Nari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 704 people named Nari (620 women and girls, 84 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 315 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Nari rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 7,845 babies since 1880, Nari is the fourth most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 636 babies (6.8%), the fifth 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 Nari
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 Nari and names like it
- Compare Nari and NariahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Nari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nari alive today were born 2013-2025.
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