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Nayeli vs Nayelie

American parents have registered 24,665 Nayelis since 1880, against 537 Nayelies. Nayeli is still ahead, with 1,151 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nayeli 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

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 1993, when Nayeli had 188 and Nayelie had 9.

Side by side

  Nayeli Nayelie
Total US births 24,665537
Most in one year 1,84553
Babies in 2025 1,1518
Estimated living today 24,000530
Median age today 1518
Peak year 20012001
Best rank 175th girls2,766th girls
Rank in 2025 270th10,917th
First recorded 19771993
Girls / boys 24,651 / 14537 / 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 Nayelis are over 15. That is 3 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 Nayeli Nayelie
France 38530 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: Nayeli and Nayelie.