# Nana (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nana/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Japanese |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,396 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 866 / 2,530 (74% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,761, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 28 | 5,014 |
| 2012 | 16 | 7,700 |
| 2013 | 22 | 5,954 |
| 2014 | 20 | 6,376 |
| 2015 | 22 | 5,973 |
| 2016 | 21 | 6,129 |
| 2017 | 25 | 5,294 |
| 2018 | 27 | 4,968 |
| 2019 | 11 | 9,561 |
| 2020 | 26 | 4,972 |
| 2021 | 11 | 9,374 |
| 2022 | 16 | 7,198 |
| 2023 | 22 | 5,682 |
| 2024 | 14 | 7,853 |
| 2025 | 16 | 7,045 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 4,458 |
| 2012 | 19 | 4,981 |
| 2013 | 17 | 5,324 |
| 2014 | 32 | 3,438 |
| 2015 | 25 | 4,145 |
| 2016 | 27 | 3,952 |
| 2017 | 17 | 5,446 |
| 2018 | 23 | 4,448 |
| 2019 | 25 | 4,194 |
| 2020 | 19 | 4,980 |
| 2021 | 16 | 5,707 |
| 2022 | 18 | 5,362 |
| 2023 | 14 | 6,420 |
| 2024 | 12 | 7,126 |
| 2025 | 16 | 5,773 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 37 | 959 |
| 2012 | 24 | 1,342 |
| 2013 | 24 | 1,360 |
| 2014 | 25 | 1,299 |
| 2015 | 29 | 1,168 |
| 2016 | 26 | 1,278 |
| 2017 | 20 | 1,568 |
| 2018 | 19 | 1,586 |
| 2019 | 14 | 1,940 |
| 2020 | 21 | 1,449 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,866 |
| 2022 | 32 | 1,058 |
| 2023 | 29 | 1,135 |
| 2024 | 48 | 776 |
| 2025 | 44 | 816 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 32 | 907 |
| 2012 | 37 | 837 |
| 2013 | 27 | 1,024 |
| 2014 | 28 | 1,012 |
| 2015 | 29 | 996 |
| 2016 | 20 | 1,319 |
| 2017 | 31 | 968 |
| 2018 | 17 | 1,455 |
| 2019 | 20 | 1,253 |
| 2020 | 24 | 1,111 |
| 2021 | 24 | 1,139 |
| 2022 | 39 | 810 |
| 2023 | 39 | 827 |
| 2024 | 52 | 691 |
| 2025 | 60 | 621 |

## People named Nana

- Nana Alexandria, Georgian chess player
- Nana Visitor, American actress (born 1957)
- Nana Dzagnidze, Georgian chess player
- Nana Ioseliani, Georgian chess player
- Nana Komatsu, actress
- Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, former First Lady of Ghana (1948 - 2025)
- Nana Bryant, actress (1888-1955)
- Nana Akua Addo, German-born Ghanaian model, actress and film producer
- Nana Attakora, Canadian soccer player
- Nana Ekvtimishvili, Georgian writer and film director
- Nana Caymmi, Brazilian singer (1941–2025)
- Nana Falemi, Cameroonian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.