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Nailea vs Naim

American parents have registered 2,697 Naims since 1880, against 1,462 Naileas. But in 2025 it was Nailea that was commoner, 130 babies to 97.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nailea against Naim, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nailea Naim

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

Of the 53 years in which either name was published, Naim for 48 years and Nailea for 5 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Nailea Naim
Total US births 1,4622,697
Most in one year 130135
Babies in 2025 13097
Estimated living today 1,5002,600
Median age today 1318
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 1,605th girls1,380th boys
Rank in 2025 1,605th1,688th
First recorded 19881973
Girls / boys 1,462 / 00 / 2,697

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 Naims alive today are over 18; half the Naileas are over 13. That is 5 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.

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