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Naya vs Nayra

American parents have registered 6,563 Nayas since 1880, against 504 Nayras. Naya is still ahead, with 336 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Naya Nayra

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 1988, when Naya had 8 and Nayra had 5.

Side by side

  Naya Nayra
Total US births 6,563504
Most in one year 44640
Babies in 2025 33640
Estimated living today 6,500500
Median age today 98
Peak year 20212025
Best rank 668th girls3,712th girls
Rank in 2025 812th3,712th
First recorded 19741988
Girls / boys 6,563 / 0504 / 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.

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 Nayra
France 5,025480
England and Wales 78293
Switzerland 425102
Belgium 46425

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 Nayra.