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
Grammatical form

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

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.