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Nayely vs Naythan

American parents have registered 2,678 Nayelys since 1880, against 813 Naythans. But in 2025 it was Naythan that was commoner, 19 babies to 13.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nayely Naythan

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 37 years and Naythan for 3 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Nayely Naythan
Total US births 2,678813
Most in one year 33153
Babies in 2025 1319
Estimated living today 2,600800
Median age today 2216
Peak year 20012009
Best rank 731st girls2,401st boys
Rank in 2025 7,885th5,045th
First recorded 19861987
Girls / boys 2,678 / 00 / 813

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 Naythans are over 16. That is 6 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 Naythan.