Baby name

Nana

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74% girls / 26% boys

Origin of the name

Nana is a pet form of Anna. Émile Zola made it the heroine of one of his novels.

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Classic name

In 2000, Nana reached its peak: 47 girls, 1 baby in 80,393. Few fads, plenty of staying power: it appears in 141 years out of 146. Latest ranking, 2025: No. 6837.

2,530births since 1880

2000sgeneration

No. 2970rank at its peak, in 2000

Where babies named Nana are born

2000

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The darker the blue, the more common Nana is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Nana is most common in New York (9.2 times), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

One letter apart

Dana 193,555
Nina 133,788
Ana 111,359
Lana 57,434
Jana 46,185
Nona 16,708

Names from the same era

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Girls and boys, decade by decade

Decade	Girls	Boys
1880s	100%	0%
1890s	100%	0%
1900s	100%	0%
1910s	100%	0%
1920s	100%	0%
1930s	100%	0%
1940s	100%	0%
1950s	100%	0%
1960s	100%	0%
1970s	79%	21%
1980s	74%	26%
1990s	61%	39%
2000s	57%	43%
2010s	49%	51%
2020s	52%	48%