Nairobi Girl
How popular is Nairobi?
#1,867 girl name in 2025
106 baby girls were named Nairobi in the US in 2025, making it the 1867th most popular girl name.
Nairobi popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,867 for girls (▼ 331 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 106 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+657% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #8,004 in 2015, #1,120 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2021 (242 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,042 in 2021 |
| First recorded | 1983 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Nairobi counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Nairobi family of names ranked #1,466 for girls in 2025 (#1,222 the year before), with 111 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Nairobi | 106 | 95% |
| Nairoby | 5 | 5% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Nairobi is most popular
Babies named Nairobi per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Georgia: 0.2 per 1,000 (49 girls)
- Arizona: 0.2 per 1,000 (30 girls)
- Florida: 0.2 per 1,000 (84 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.2 per 1,000 (42 girls)
- Illinois: 0.2 per 1,000 (38 girls)
Nairobi by decade
Girl names about as popular as Nairobi
Questions
- Is Nairobi a boy or girl name?
- Nairobi is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Nairobi were girls.
- How popular is the name Nairobi?
- 106 baby girls were named Nairobi in the US in 2025, making it the 1867th most popular girl name.
- When was Nairobi most popular?
- Nairobi peaked in 2021, when 242 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,042 in 2021.
- How many people are named Nairobi?
- 1,596 babies have been named Nairobi in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,587 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 5.
- Where is Nairobi most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Nairobi was most common in Georgia, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.