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Nanako

Nanako is a feminine given name from Japanese.

Original Japanese南奈子

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Nanako comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1995. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Nanako through the years

Babies since 1880
73
0 boys · 73 girls
Most popular year
2002
8 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Nanako in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1995–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 241 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Nanako’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Nanako is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 南奈子. In Japanese usage, Nanako is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 奈々子. In Japanese usage, Nanako is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 奈菜子.

Walk Nanako’s family in the name graph

Nanako南奈子奈菜子奈々子

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Spellings & scripts 3

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

People named Nanako

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