Nana

Where Nana comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Nana.

  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Nana through the years
  1. 1881
    Debut at its peak, #582
    #582 among girls with 9 babies in the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1934
    Nana Mouskouri born
    Greek singer
  4. 1944
    Nana Akufo-Addo born
    President of Ghana from 2017 to 2025
  5. 2023
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Nana Akufo-Addo · President of Ghana from 2017 to 2025, born 1944
  • Nana Mouskouri · Greek singer, born 1934
  • Nana Patekar · Indian philanthropist, writer, flim actor and film maker, born 1951
  • Nana Alexandria · Georgian chess player, born 1949
  • Nana Visitor · American actress, born 1957

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.