Nairobi
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Nairobi (the capital city of Kenya)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nairobi is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.
- AOAngola
- COColombia
- PEPeru
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Nairobi (the capital city of Kenya)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Nairobi, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nairobi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | — | 7 | Nairobi | 42 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | Nairobi | 25 |
| PE Peru | — | — | Nairobi | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 156 | Nairobi | 31 |
| AO Angola | — | — | Nairobi | 1 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 974 | — | 21 |
| US United States | — | 572 | — | 59 |
| BR Brazil | — | 47 | — | 17 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 25 | — | 1 |
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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)
Nairobi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, city, Kenya
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Slovak, Nairobi (the capital of Kenya)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, glavni grad Kenije, 1.429.000 stan., najveći grad I Afrike
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
In Latvian, Kenijas galvaspilsēta (angļu val. "Nairobi"), atrodas augstkalnes plato 1600 m vjl., 3 mlj iedzīvotāju (2007. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 974 | #1,593 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 572 | #16,658 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 242 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 233 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 215 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 172 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 156 | #10,986 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 139 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 119 | #6,094 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 106 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 101 | #16,658 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 65 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nairobi mean, and where does it come from?
- Nairobi (the capital city of Kenya) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Nairobi have the most bearers?
- Nairobi is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled nairobi.
What do you want to know about Nairobi?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nairobiThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Nairobi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.