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Nakai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,275 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Nakai in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,275 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Nakai: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,275 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 62 (2025).
In 2025, 62 US boys were named Nakai, making it the 2,275th most common boys’ name of the year, up 805 places from #3,080 in 2024. That is 22 more than the 40 boys named Nakai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,275, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 62. For comparison, it was #3,065 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Nakai in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #6,077, reached in 1974. The most girls given the name in a single year was 14, in 2008. For comparison, it was #14,051 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nakai in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 17 babies. In all, 1,132 US babies have been given the name, 16% of them girls and 84% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 367 babies named Nakai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 412 US boys were named Nakai; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,550 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nakai ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,436 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 8 | #1,436 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 62 | #2,275 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,845 | 40 | #3,080 |
| 2023 | — | — | 49 | #2,680 |
| 2022 | — | — | 41 | #3,038 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,099 | 54 | #2,482 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,594 | 34 | #3,321 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,470 | 32 | #3,541 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,177 | 27 | #3,958 |
| 2017 | — | — | 40 | #2,987 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,060 | 33 | #3,412 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,051 | 38 | #3,065 |
| 2014 | — | — | 36 | #3,141 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,186 | 27 | #3,825 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,950 | 24 | #4,215 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,194 | 24 | #4,178 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,362 | 24 | #4,198 |
| 2009 | — | — | 32 | #3,454 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,839 | 39 | #3,046 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,002 | 44 | #2,751 |
| 2006 | — | — | 35 | #3,133 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,668 | 32 | #3,214 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,101 | 34 | #2,997 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,412 | 28 | #3,337 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #6,890 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,795 | 23 | #3,689 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,459 | 6 | #9,926 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,363 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,074 | 16 | #4,342 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,454 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #5,092 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,544 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,993 | 9 | #6,195 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,844 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,697 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,700 | 9 | #3,843 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,077 | 8 | #4,077 |
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).