Nalini
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nalini is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 50th most common given name. Recorded meaning: de Nale com o suf. pl.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 745as Nadine
- FRFrance≈1 in 862as Nadine
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nalini itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 351 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 named Nadine, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nadine in FR France, US United States, BE Belgium and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
de Nale com o suf. pl. -ini
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nalini counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #175 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 862 | 132K | Nadine | 351 |
| US United States | — | 38,200as Nadine | 1 in 8.7K | 38K | Nadine | 335 |
| CM Cameroon | #50 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 745 | — | Nadine | 33 |
| EG Egypt | #765 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Nadine | 102 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 64 | Nadine | 121 |
| BE Belgium | #152 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 968 | 11 | Nadine | 106 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 981 | 9.8K | Nalini | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | #494 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 18 | Nadine | 86 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Nalini | 37 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 164 | 1 in 105K | 4.4K | Nadine | 56 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nalini is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Encantadora
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nalini Bala Devib. 1898INAssamese-language Indian poet
- Nalini Jaywantb. 1926INIndian actress
- Nalini Singhb. 1945INIndian journalist
- Nalini Malanib. 1946INcontemporary Indian artist (born 1946)
- Nalini Nadkarnib. 1954USAmerican Ecologist
- Nalini Joshib. 1958MMAustralian mathematician
- Nalini Ambadyb. 1959USAmerican social psychologist of Indian descent
- Nalini Anantharamanb. 1976FRFrench mathematician & academic
- Nalini Singhb. 1977FJNew Zealand writer
- Nalini Krishanb. 1977FJFijian film actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,858 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 164 | #4,089 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 77 | #9,270 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 28 | #6,858 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2021 | 2 | #1,876 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2021 | 1 | #3,172 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Nalini come from?
- de Nale com o suf. pl. -ini Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- What does the name Nalini mean?
- Recorded meaning: de Nale com o suf. pl.
- Is Nalini a male or female name?
- Nalini is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Nalini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Nadine in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nalini?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 164 people named Nalini, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.
- How common is Nalini compared with other names?
- In France, Nalini is the 175th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naliniThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nalini” — the 175th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.