Meaning not yet researched.
Nairobi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 106 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,043 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,043 in 2021; #1,870 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nairobi in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,870 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,043.
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Nairobi: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 106 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,043 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 242 (2021).
In 2025, 106 US girls were named Nairobi, making it the 1,870th most common girls’ name of the year, down 329 places from #1,541 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 139 girls named Nairobi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,043, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 242. For comparison, it was #8,310 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nairobi in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 1,596 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,112 babies named Nairobi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,254 US girls were named Nairobi; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 242. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,163 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nairobi ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,045 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Nairoby and Nayrobi are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nairoby (103), Nayrobi (26).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nairobi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 9 | #1,045 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,405 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,612 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,717 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #2,161 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,318 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 106 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 2024 | 139 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 2023 | 172 | #1,321 | 5 | #13,550 |
| 2022 | 233 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 2021 | 242 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 2020 | 215 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,672 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,983 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,479 | — | — |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,125 | — | — |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,310 | — | — |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,220 | — | — |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,049 | — | — |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,698 | — | — |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,022 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,972 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,991 | — | — |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,315 | — | — |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,014 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,726 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,740 | — | — |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,100 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,044 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,824 | 5 | #11,905 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,882 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,671 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,066 | 9 | #6,926 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,896 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,224 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,949 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,978 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,252 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,790 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,175 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,965 | — | — |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,431 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,408 | — | — |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,471 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,401 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,422 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).