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Nayan vs Nayomi

American parents have registered 1,404 Nayomis since 1880, against 583 Nayans. Nayomi is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nayan against Nayomi, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nayan Nayomi

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 37 years in which either name was published, Nayomi for 34 years and Nayan for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Nayan Nayomi
Total US births 5831,404
Most in one year 3278
Babies in 2025 2860
Estimated living today 5801,400
Median age today 1110
Peak year 20122022
Best rank 3,371st boys2,364th girls
Rank in 2025 3,848th2,822nd
First recorded 19901984
Girls / boys 5 / 5781,404 / 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 Nayan Nayomi
France 7455
England and Wales 40221
Switzerland 8714

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: Nayan and Nayomi.