Nyrobi
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ny-ROH-bee
- US rank, 2025
- #7,883 for girls
Nyrobi is a girls' name, meaning “cool water”. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
What does Nyrobi mean?
Spelling of Nairobi, from Maasai enkare nairobi 'cool water'
“cool water”
Nairobi, Kenya's capital, takes its name from the Maasai name for a cold-water stream.
Is Nyrobi a girl's or a boy's name?
Nyrobi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nyrobi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,883among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 144% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Nyrobi, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2022, with 25 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had fewer girls named Nyrobi than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Nyrobi in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 124 girls in the US were given Nyrobi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,458, up from #7,883 for this spelling alone.
- Nairobi 106
- Nyrobi 13
- Nairoby 5
Nyrobi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,440 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,123 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,169 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,170 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
Names like Nyrobi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nyomi Kehlani Kyomi Naylani Kaylani Malani Meilani Milani Nalani Kailani Nailani Xolani
Other spellings of Nyrobi
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, “Nyrobi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nyrobi, updated 20 October 2026.