Nairobi
#1,867 for girls in 2025, 106 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls 97.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 242 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,561since 1983
Nairobi over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Nairobi has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,867 | 106 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,536 | 139 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,319 | 172 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #1,077 | 233 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,042 | 242 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,120 | 215 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,651 | 65 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,918 | 37 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | — | |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | — | |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | — | |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 | — | |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | — | |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | — | |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | — | |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | — | |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | — | |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | — | |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | — | |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | — | |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 | — | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | — | |
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| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | — | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | — | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | — | |
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| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1983
The first year at least five girls were named Nairobi! It came in at #10,275, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986–1992, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 331 spots since 2024 (#1,536 → #1,867)
- 747 spots since 2020 (#1,120 → #1,867)
- 6,141 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #1,867)
Rise & fade · girls
38 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2021 at #1,042 (242 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,780
- Highest: 1 in 6,780 girls born in 2021 were named Nairobi (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,163 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
- 70.9% of all girls named Nairobi (1,107) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 30 | #5,222 (1984) | #8,682 |
| 1990s | 75 | #4,796 (1998) | #8,948 |
| 2000s | 127 | #6,528 (2005) | #8,894 |
| 2010s | 222 | #2,651 (2019) | #7,335 |
| 2020s | 1,107 | #1,042 (2021) | #1,327 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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