Nanami
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Nanami is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Nanami mean?
Japanese
A female given name from Japanese.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Nanami a girl's or a boy's name?
Nanami is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nanami in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Nanami, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
2025 had fewer girls named Nanami than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Nanami in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nanami in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,003 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,838 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
Names like Nanami
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Armani Kiyomi Anahi Avani Kyomi Nami Nayeli Sarahi Saanvi Navi Nyomi Akari
More Japanese names
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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, “Nanami: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nanami, updated 20 October 2026.