Meaning not yet researched.
Nana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #613 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #613 in 1881; #7,045 in 2025. About 50% of babies named Nana in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,045 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #613.
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Nana: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #613 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 47 (2000).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Nana, making it the 7,045th most common girls’ name of the year, up 808 places from #7,853 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 14 girls named Nana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #613, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 47, in 2000. For comparison, it was #5,973 in 2015 and #2,230 in 1950.
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Nana, making it the 5,773rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,353 places from #7,126 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 12 boys named Nana in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,088, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 32, in 2014. For comparison, it was #4,145 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nana in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 9 babies. In all, 3,396 US babies have been given the name, 74% of them girls and 26% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 605 babies named Nana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 189 US girls were named Nana; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nona (16,708 babies since 1880), Nan (10,274 babies since 1880) and Nena (4,896 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Naina, Nayana and Nanna are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Naina (764), Nayana (631), Nanna (241), Nayna (19), Naana (8), Nayona (5), Naiana (5), Nnanna (5).
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 Nana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,045 | 16 | #5,773 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,853 | 12 | #7,126 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,682 | 14 | #6,420 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,198 | 18 | #5,362 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,374 | 16 | #5,707 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,972 | 19 | #4,980 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,561 | 25 | #4,194 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,968 | 23 | #4,448 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,294 | 17 | #5,446 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,129 | 27 | #3,952 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,973 | 25 | #4,145 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,376 | 32 | #3,438 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,954 | 17 | #5,324 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,700 | 19 | #4,981 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,014 | 22 | #4,458 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,207 | 17 | #5,405 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,494 | 25 | #4,131 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,846 | 22 | #4,493 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,539 | 26 | #3,971 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,904 | 31 | #3,430 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,070 | 24 | #3,902 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,604 | 29 | #3,344 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,778 | 31 | #3,088 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,705 | 21 | #4,001 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,471 | 28 | #3,200 |
| 2000 | 47 | #3,008 | 23 | #3,605 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,620 | 26 | #3,162 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,458 | 23 | #3,357 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,514 | 15 | #4,397 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,834 | 19 | #3,634 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,744 | 15 | #4,208 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,586 | 21 | #3,300 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,067 | 14 | #4,383 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,339 | 17 | #3,699 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,327 | 12 | #4,675 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,787 | 12 | #4,586 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,968 | 15 | #3,755 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,807 | 7 | #5,898 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,516 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,573 | 6 | #6,275 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,270 | 10 | #4,117 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,056 | 7 | #5,300 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,218 | 5 | #7,037 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,667 | 13 | #3,355 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,456 | 6 | #6,009 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,544 | 12 | #3,499 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,194 | 11 | #3,547 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,142 | 5 | #6,534 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,092 | 5 | #6,195 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,074 | — | — |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,396 | 5 | #5,753 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,099 | — | — |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,958 | 6 | #4,797 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,298 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,348 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,488 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,865 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,132 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,639 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,470 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,375 | — | — |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,197 | — | — |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,286 | — | — |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,635 | — | — |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,224 | — | — |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 1957 | 16 | #3,001 | — | — |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,365 | — | — |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,806 | — | — |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,642 | — | — |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,230 | — | — |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,283 | — | — |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,088 | — | — |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,576 | — | — |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1918 | 27 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,444 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1898 | 13 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1889 | 10 | #886 | — | — |
| 1888 | 8 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1884 | 6 | #994 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1881 | 9 | #613 | — | — |
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).