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Nayely vs Naysa

American parents have registered 2,678 Nayelys since 1880, against 561 Naysas. But in 2025 it was Naysa that was commoner, 25 babies to 13.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nayely against Naysa, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nayely Naysa

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 40 years in which either name was published, Nayely for 38 years and Naysa for 2 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Nayely Naysa
Total US births 2,678561
Most in one year 33133
Babies in 2025 1325
Estimated living today 2,600560
Median age today 2213
Peak year 20012005
Best rank 731st girls4,195th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th5,099th
First recorded 19861994
Girls / boys 2,678 / 0561 / 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 Nayelys alive today are over 22; half the Naysas are over 13. That is 9 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nayely and Naysa.