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Naylah vs Nayomi

American parents have registered 1,404 Nayomis since 1880, against 674 Naylahs. Nayomi is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Naylah 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

Nayomi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1984 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Naylah had 12 and Nayomi had 13.

Side by side

  Naylah Nayomi
Total US births 6741,404
Most in one year 4978
Babies in 2025 4060
Estimated living today 6701,400
Median age today 910
Peak year 20162022
Best rank 3,280th girls2,364th girls
Rank in 2025 3,712th2,822nd
First recorded 19961984
Girls / boys 674 / 01,404 / 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 Naylah Nayomi
France 1405
England and Wales 9321

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: Naylah and Nayomi.