Nanami
Nanami is a girl name of Japanese origin, ranked #104 in popularity, meaning Seven seas.
What Nanami means
Seven seas.
Nanami sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Nanami comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Nanami is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Nanami?
Nanami is ranked #104, near the outer edge of the top hundred. Names here are often on the way up or on the way down, so this is the band where a name can feel fresh and established at the same time.
The character of Nanami
Nanami sits in our Ocean group. Following that theme is usually the fastest way to find the handful of other names that feel the way this one does.
Themes: Ocean
Names like Nanami
These share Nanami's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Natsuki — Seasons.
- Natsumi — Sea.
- Nozomi — Sea.
- Ageha — Waves.
- Asumi — Sea.
- Ayumi — Sea.
- Fuka — Sea.
- Hiromi — Sea.
- Ikumi — Sea.
- Tsumugi — Seasons.
- Kaito — Ocean; to soar, to fly.
- Mia — Mine; beloved; star of the sea.