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Naya vs Naydelin

American parents have registered 6,563 Nayas since 1880, against 1,136 Naydelins. Naya is still ahead, with 336 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Naya against Naydelin, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Naya Naydelin

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 47 years in which either name was published, Naya for 45 years and Naydelin for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Naya Naydelin
Total US births 6,5631,136
Most in one year 446157
Babies in 2025 33637
Estimated living today 6,5001,100
Median age today 915
Peak year 20212003
Best rank 668th girls1,313th girls
Rank in 2025 812th3,903rd
First recorded 19741998
Girls / boys 6,563 / 01,136 / 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 Naydelins alive today are over 15; half the Nayas are over 9. That is 6 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: Naya and Naydelin.