Nandan
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Nandan is a boys' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “son”. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Nandan mean?
Sanskrit
“son”
A female given name from Sanskrit
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Nandan a girl's or a boy's name?
Nandan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nandan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,690among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Nandan, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 2004.
Half of all the boys named Nandan in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nandan in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,691 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,048 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,503 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,729 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,021 |
| 2012 | 14 | #5,995 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,002 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,585 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,305 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,579 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,137 |
Names like Nandan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Vihaan Avyaan Aarav Arjan Ronan Declan Finnegan Callan Nirvaan Shivansh Arjun Atharv
More Sanskrit names
Maya Bodhi Arya Lila Rohan Kali Aryan Opal Aadhya Ishaan Siya Leena Veer Veda India Avani
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, “Nandan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nandan, updated 20 October 2026.