Girl Names Starting With N

Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so gaps between rows are real. For a random shortlist, spin N girl names in the generator, or scan the full top 100 girl names.

How common is N as a first letter for girls in 2025?

Count births rather than names and N lands 11th of the 26 initials for girls in 2025: 3.3% of the top-1,000 total, spread over 31 names. Tier by tier, the 2025 overall top 100 claims 4 of the table's 50 names, the 101–500 band claims 11, the 501–1,000 band claims 16, and 19 rank past #1,000, outside the committed top-1,000 file. The table's last row, Naziyah, still carries 138 births at #1,535; any N girl names below it are outside the committed per-letter depth of 50 and are not shown.

The 2025 N table runs from Nora at #20 to Naziyah at #1,535, and Nora's 6,380 births are 46.2 times Naziyah's 138; all 50 rows together sum to 41,796 births. The middle row, the 25th, is Nola at #822 with 331 births in 2025. The widest jump between consecutive rows is 90 ranks, from Nalani (#414) to Nylah (#504); every 2025 girl name at the ranks between them begins with another letter. 1 row carries exactly the count of the row above it, ordered by the SSA's alphabetical tie rule; the first such pair is Nami (#1,404) and Noelia (#1,405), at 156 births each. N's top-100 names for 2025 are Nora (#20), Nova (#46), Naomi (#47) and Natalie (#89), 4 of the table's 50.

How a rank like #20 is assigned, including the SSA's alphabetical tie-break between equal counts, is explained in Reading ranks and counts.

N girl names across the decade snapshots

Every snapshot year from 1955 to 2015 has at least one N girl name in its top 200; the count was 2 in 1955 and 7 in 2015. The most N names in a single snapshot was 7 in 2015, led by Natalie at #27 with 6,510 births; the fewest was 2 in 1955. The lead changed hands among 3 names across those 7 snapshots (Nancy, Nicole and Natalie), and in 2025 the letter's leader is Nora, at #20, a name that led no snapshot.

Of the births inside each snapshot's top 200 for girls, N names took 2.1% in 1955, 1.2% in 1965, 2.5% in 1975, 3.3% in 1985, 2.2% in 1995, 2.9% in 2005 and 3.2% in 2015; the largest of those 7 shares is 1985's and the smallest 1965's. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 6 N names with 3.2% of its births, led by Nora at #20. The move from 2.1% (1955) to 3.2% (2015) is N's row in First-letter trends since 1955, the guide that tabulates all 26 initials for every snapshot year and both sexes, listed with the rest of the data guides.

Faded and new N girl names

Between the snapshots and 2025, 2 N girl names dropped out at the committed depths — each inside some snapshot's top 200, none among the 50 names in the 2025 table. Absent means absent from the 2025 top-50 N list, which stops at Naziyah (#1,535, 138 births); a faded name may still be registered below that cut.

The 2025 table also carries 40 names that no snapshot top 200 contains: Nova (#46), Noelle (#202), Noa (#226), Nyla (#236), Nayeli (#271), Nina (#324), Navy (#327), Nalani (#414), Nylah (#504), Nellie (#533), Noemi (#583) and Noah (#624), and 28 more. Because the committed snapshots stop at rank 200, this says only that Nova (#46 in 2025) and the other 39 sat outside the top 200 in each of 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015, not that they went unregistered in those years.

The shape of the 2025 N list

On the SSA spelling, 18 of the 50 names in the 2025 N table have four letters or fewer, 30 have five to seven, and 2 have eight or more. The 2025 rank spans by length class are 18 short spellings from Nora at #20 to Nour at #1,531; 30 medium spellings from Naomi at #47 to Naziyah at #1,535; and 2 long spellings from Nathalia at #1,365 to Nathalie at #1,481. By letter count, Noa is the shortest spelling in the 2025 table (3 letters, #226) and Nathalia the longest (8 letters, #1,365). "a" is the second letter of 22 of the 50 names in the 2025 N table, "o" of 15, and "e" of 5; 5 second letters are used in total.

Across the sexes, 5 of these 50 spellings also sit on the 2025 boys' N list, where the SSA ranks each sex on its own: Nova (#46 for girls, #1,308 for boys), Noa (#226 for girls, #1,006 for boys), Navy (#327 for girls, #1,558 for boys), Noah (#624 for girls, #2 for boys) and Noel (#1,395 for girls, #478 for boys).

N girl names: questions the data answers

What is the most popular girl name starting with N in 2025?

Nora. The 2025 SSA data records 6,380 girls named Nora, which places it at #20 among all girl names that year, inside the overall top 100.

How many girl names starting with N are in the 2025 top 1,000?

31. Together they account for 3.3% of the births in the 2025 top 1,000, the 11th-largest share among the 26 initials.

Why does this page list 50 N girl names?

The committed per-letter file holds the 50 most-registered 2025 girl names for each initial, and N fills it: the 50th row is Naziyah at #1,535. Any N names below that cut are outside the committed depth and are not shown.

Which N girl name on this page has the lowest rank?

Naziyah, at #1,535 with 138 births in 2025. Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so the span from #20 to #1,535 covers names that start with other letters.

How many N girl names were in the top 200 in 1955 and in 2015?

2 in 1955 (led by Nancy at #9) and 7 in 2015 (led by Natalie at #27). Each snapshot is one SSA year ranked to a depth of 200, and N's highest count among the 7 is 7 in 2015.

Do any of these N girl names also appear on the boys' N list for 2025?

Yes, 5 of the 50: Nova (#46 for girls, #1,308 for boys), Noa (#226 for girls, #1,006 for boys), Navy (#327 for girls, #1,558 for boys), Noah (#624 for girls, #2 for boys) and Noel (#1,395 for girls, #478 for boys). The SSA ranks each sex on its own, which is why Nova carries #46 with 4,657 births for girls and #1,308 with 149 for boys.

Other letters

Boy names for this letter: boy names starting with N.

Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.