Nalini

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Nadine in FR France, US United States, BR Brazil and 18 more and นลินี in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nalini is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name25K records spelled Nalini6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Naḷinī, Naḷini, Nalinī, Nālinī, Naḷin̲i

• Spanish given name4.1K records spelled Nalini6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Brazil, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Naliní, Naḷini, Nalíni

• a separate name1.7K records spelled Nalini6 spellings in the group

  Also written நளினி, Naḷini, Naḷin̲i

• Italian given name212 records spelled Nalini2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom

  Also written Naḷini

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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 name·25,000 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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 87 years between 1919–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 285 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nalini?

We estimate roughly 180 thousand people bear Nalini (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Nalini have the most bearers?

Nalini is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled nalini.

Where is Nalini most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nalini is densest in France — about 1 in 515 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

How common is Nalini compared with other names?

In Guyana, Nalini is the 38th most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.

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.

What does the name Nalini mean?

Recorded meaning: de Nale com o suf. pl.