# Narayan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/narayan/  
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 |
| Origin | Sanskrit |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Narayana |
| US babies named this | 273 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 273 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 179, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi नारायण (nārāyaṇ), from Sanskrit नारायण (nārāyaṇá). Doublet of Narayana.

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 | 8,107 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10,639 |
| 2010 | 9 | 8,589 |
| 2011 | 13 | 6,477 |
| 2012 | 10 | 7,959 |
| 2013 | 20 | 4,750 |
| 2014 | 21 | 4,651 |
| 2015 | 16 | 5,664 |
| 2016 | 14 | 6,246 |
| 2017 | 14 | 6,237 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8,621 |
| 2019 | 6 | 11,719 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,562 |
| 2021 | 8 | 9,422 |
| 2022 | 7 | 10,526 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | 2,039 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,458 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,216 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,630 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,483 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,556 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,734 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2020 | 12 | 1,825 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,018 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2,269 |

## People named Narayan

- Narayan Das, footballer
- S. N. Goenka, Burmese teacher of vipassanā meditation (1924–2013)
- Didi Contractor, German-American architect

## 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.