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Naiara vs Naila

American parents have registered 3,235 Nailas since 1880, against 549 Naiaras. Naila is still ahead, with 118 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Naiara against Naila, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Naiara Naila

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Naila has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1953 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Naiara had 41 and Naila had 118.

Side by side

  Naiara Naila
Total US births 5493,235
Most in one year 42231
Babies in 2025 41118
Estimated living today 5503,200
Median age today 811
Peak year 20232019
Best rank 3,640th girls1,083rd girls
Rank in 2025 3,645th1,721st
First recorded 20031953
Girls / boys 549 / 03,235 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Nailas alive today are over 11; half the Naiaras are over 8. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Naiara Naila
France 357,745 Naïla
England and Wales 37784
Switzerland 71312

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Naiara and Naila.