Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Nandana is a romanization of നന്ദന. നന്ദന comes from Sanskrit.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2002. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nandana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 121
- 0 boys · 121 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 232 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.
Nandana’s family of names
In English usage, Nandana has a related form in Nandan. In Malayalam usage, Nandana is a Roman-alphabet rendering of നന്ദന.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Nandana
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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