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Nayomi vs Naysa

American parents have registered 1,404 Nayomis since 1880, against 561 Naysas. Nayomi is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nayomi 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 36 years in which either name was published, Nayomi for 32 years and Naysa for 4 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Nayomi Naysa
Total US births 1,404561
Most in one year 7833
Babies in 2025 6025
Estimated living today 1,400560
Median age today 1013
Peak year 20222005
Best rank 2,364th girls4,195th girls
Rank in 2025 2,822nd5,099th
First recorded 19841994
Girls / boys 1,404 / 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 Naysas alive today are over 13; half the Nayomis are over 10. 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 Nayomi Naysa
England and Wales 2164
France 510

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: Nayomi and Naysa.