Nana

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Nana: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Nana: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #409 in 2001, and it stood at #691 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
63times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#409highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#974
1997	#1074
1998	#995
1999	#1317
2000	#1058
2001	#796
2002	#1032
2003	#876
2004	#722
2005	#790
2006	#678
2007	#693
2008	#753
2009	#1022
2010	#946
2011	#959
2012	#1342
2013	#1360
2014	#1299
2015	#1168
2016	#1278
2017	#1568
2018	#1586
2019	#1940
2020	#1449
2021	#1866
2022	#1058
2023	#1135
2024	#776

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #776 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #974 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2001–2003
Highest recorded position: #409 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2001 (recorded 2001–2003).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #776 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Nana appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 838 births with the name.

Nana across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Nana's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#605 (1996)	#576 (2004)	#691 (2024)	29 of 29	838 (1996–2024)	52 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#974 (1996)	#678 (2006)	#776 (2024)	29 of 29	819 (1996–2024)	49 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#606 (2001)	#606 (2001)	#764 (2006)	2 of 6	6 (2001–2006)	3 (2001)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#409 (2001)	#409 (2001)	#423 (2003)	2 of 3	7 (2001–2003)	4 (2003)

Nana by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Nana in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	67	4 of 10	17
2000s	314	10 of 10	31
2010s	279	10 of 10	28
2020sbusiest	178	5 of 10	36

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 36 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Nana appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #409 in Republic of Ireland in 2001.

Nana's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#776	48	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#691	52	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1135	29	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#827	39	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1058	32	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#810	39	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1866	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1139	24	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1449	21	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1111	24	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1253	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1586	19	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1455	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1568	20	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#968	31	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1278	26	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1319	20	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1168	29	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#996	29	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1299	25	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1012	28	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1360	24	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1024	27	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1342	24	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#837	37	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#959	37	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#907	32	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#946	36	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#774	38	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1022	31	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#884	31	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#753	46	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#943	28	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#693	49	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#684	41	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#678	46	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#644	43	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#790	36	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#638	41	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#722	39	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#576	43	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#876	29	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#795	26	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1032	21	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#671	29	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#796	30	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1135	13	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1058	19	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#848	19	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1317	14	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1199	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#995	21	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1000	14	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1074	18	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#964	15	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#974	21	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#605	27	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#409	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #409, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 52 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Richie · #409, 30y
Cianna · #407, 28y
Gaia · #412, 29y
Orion · #406, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abiola · #409, 18y
Chukwuemeka · #409, 28y
Collins · #409, 17y
Fahd · #409, 26y

Nana was ranked #409 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2001. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Nana and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Nana without appearing here.

Nana moved ahead of

Pamela Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1866 and #1628 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1058 and #3148.
Jordan Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1866 and #1866 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1058 and #2888.
Brodie Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1866 and #1692 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1058 and #2488.
Murray Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1319 and #1271 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #968 and #2324.

Moved ahead of Nana

Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1168 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1278 and #768.
Carter Compare
In 1996 they stood at #605 and #755 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #964 and #476.
Finley Compare
In 1996 they stood at #605 and #704 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #964 and #484.
Rian Compare
In 1996 they stood at #605 and #633 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #964 and #493.

Moved the same way as Nana

Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nana went from #1199 to #691 and Arlo from #2943 to #15.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Nana went from #974 to #1866 and Carol from #802 to #3519.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nana went from #1317 to #776 and Frida from #3900 to #811.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nana went from #1199 to #691 and Harper from #2425 to #1402.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #409 in Republic of Ireland in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Nana across 4 official records

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