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Naya vs Nayelie

American parents have registered 6,563 Nayas since 1880, against 537 Nayelies. Naya is still ahead, with 336 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Naya Nayelie

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

Naya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Naya had 82 and Nayelie had 37.

Side by side

  Naya Nayelie
Total US births 6,563537
Most in one year 44653
Babies in 2025 3368
Estimated living today 6,500530
Median age today 918
Peak year 20212001
Best rank 668th girls2,766th girls
Rank in 2025 812th10,917th
First recorded 19741993
Girls / boys 6,563 / 0537 / 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 Nayelies alive today are over 18; half the Nayas are over 9. That is 9 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 Naya Nayelie
France 5,02530 NayƩlie

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: Naya and Nayelie.