Given name & surname
Nanami
Nanami is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and French.
Original Japanese菜々美
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Nanami comes from Japanese, and ultimately from Japanese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nanami through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 295
- 0 boys · 295 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,410 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +40%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,410 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 39.5% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 19 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 311 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.
Nanami’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Nanami is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 奈々深. In Japanese usage, Nanami is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 奈々美. In Japanese usage, Nanami is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 菜々美.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Nanami
- Nanami KitamuraJapanese association football playerborn 1999
- Nanami HashimotoJapanese idol and fashion modelborn 1993
- Nanami YamashitaJapanese voice actressborn 1995
- Nanami ShionoJapanese writerborn 1937
- Nanami SekiJapanese volleyball playerborn 1999
- Nanami TakenakaJapanese rhythmic gymnastborn 1998
- Nanami AbeJapanese figure skating coachborn 1972
- Nanami YanagawaJapanese singerborn 2002
- Nanami OhtaJapanese actressborn 1993
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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