Nalina
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NAH-lih-nah
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Nalina is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “lotus”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Nalina mean?
Sanskrit: Sanskrit nalina
“lotus”
Is Nalina a girl's or a boy's name?
Nalina is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nalina in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,489th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 110,000 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, 14 girls in the US were named Nalina, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. It first appears in the records in 1981.
2025 had the most girls named Nalina of any year since it first appeared, in 1981.
Half of all the girls named Nalina in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nalina in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,108 |
Names like Nalina
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amoura, Adhara, Aitana, Daleyza, Alara, Amora, Briella, Ainara, Arya, Nova, Alaia, Amira
Names related to Nalina
Nalani, Nailani, Naloni, Nalanie, Nailany, Nalini, Nalany, Naylin
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Aadhya, Avyaan, Ishaan, Siya, Leena
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, “Nalina: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nalina, updated 20 October 2026.