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Nayana vs Nayeli

American parents have registered 24,665 Nayelis since 1880, against 631 Nayanas. Nayeli is still ahead, with 1,151 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nayana against Nayeli, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nayana Nayeli

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

Nayeli has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Nayana had 21 and Nayeli had 302.

Side by side

  Nayana Nayeli
Total US births 63124,665
Most in one year 441,845
Babies in 2025 141,151
Estimated living today 63024,000
Median age today 1615
Peak year 20082001
Best rank 3,645th girls175th girls
Rank in 2025 7,491st270th
First recorded 19961977
Girls / boys 631 / 024,651 / 14

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 Nayana Nayeli
France 170385
England and Wales 12983
Switzerland 63147

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: Nayana and Nayeli.