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
- 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
Rank among girls' names. Nairobi has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| 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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| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
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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.
See more about Nairobi
- 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)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2021 at #1,042 (242 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 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.
Nairobi in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 9,329 of them was named Nairobi, which outranked 92.5% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,310Renley173
- #1,310Roxanne173
- #1,310Sharon173
- #1,319Nairobi172
- #1,319Kaira172
- #1,319Monserrat172
- #1,319Sana172
- #1,324Avyanna171
- #1,324Faigy171
- #1,324Heather171
Tied with 4 names at #1,319; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 342,115 of them was named Nairobi, which outranked 13.9% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,976 names at #12,239; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.