Naya vs Naylani
American parents have registered 6,563 Nayas since 1880, against 1,206 Naylanis. Naya is still ahead, with 336 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Naya Naylani
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 2025, when Naya had 336 and Naylani had 296.
Side by side
| Naya | Naylani | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 6,563 | 1,206 |
| Most in one year | 446 | 296 |
| Babies in 2025 | 336 | 296 |
| Estimated living today | 6,500 | 1,200 |
| Median age today | 9 | 3 |
| Peak year | 2021 | 2025 |
| Best rank | 668th girls | 895th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 812th | 895th |
| First recorded | 1974 | 2002 |
| Girls / boys | 6,563 / 0 | 1,206 / 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 Nayas alive today are over 9; half the Naylanis are over 3. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Naya Florida (2.9×), California (2.5×), Nevada (2.3×)
- Naylani Florida (3.8×), California (2.0×), Texas (2.0×)
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 Naylani.