Nairi
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- nah-ee-REE
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Nairi is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Nairi mean?
Armenian, from Nairi, an ancient name for the Armenian highlands
Assyrian records called the tribal lands around Lake Van Nairi, later a poetic name for Armenia.
Is Nairi a girl's or a boy's name?
Nairi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nairi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Nairi, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.
Half of all the girls named Nairi in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nairi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,730 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
Names like Nairi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kiyomi, Kyomi, Miyori, Nayeli, Aaliyah, Rumi, Kaliyah, Nami, Hadassah, Zaniyah, Amiri, Nahomi
Names related to Nairi
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, “Nairi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nairi, updated 20 October 2026.