Nabi
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NAH-bee
- Origin
- Korean
- US rank, 2025
- #7,131 for girls
Nabi is a girls' name of Korean origin, meaning “butterfly”. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).
What does Nabi mean?
Korean: the Korean word nabi; in Arabic nabi means 'prophet'
“butterfly”
Is Nabi a girl's or a boy's name?
Nabi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nabi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,131st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popular new in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Nabi, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2024, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 2021.
Half of all the girls named Nabi in the US since 1880 were born between 2023 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nabi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,131 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,890 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,955 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
Names like Nabi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Naziyah, Nusaybah, Zaya, Safa, Zhamira, Zaliyah, Rahaf, Ayzal, Raha, Zaiya, Rahma, Rehmat
Names related to Nabi
More Korean names
Jae, Nari, Tae, Ho, Joon, Yoona, Yena, Sarang, Jimin, Hyun, Sua, Dae, Ki, Korea, Mi, Sang
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Nabi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nabi, updated 20 October 2026.