Entry № 7176 · Japanese origin

Nami Nami — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAH-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Wave (iconic Nami - One Piece navigator)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "wave (iconic nami - one piece navigator)".

Nami is from the Japanese nami (波 — wave). Princess Nami — modern Japanese-anime + heritage naming.

Wave (iconic Nami - One Piece navigator) — a Japanese name.

The name in its native script.

ナミ
Transliteration
Nami
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɑː.mi /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Nami stands.

Nami does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namis before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Nami
Iconic One Piece Straw Hat navigator.
1997

Names connected to Nami.

The number behind Nami.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nami reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.