Humanverse

Nylani vs Nyle

American parents have registered 2,217 Nyles since 1880, against 515 Nylanis. But in 2025 it was Nylani that was commoner, 91 babies to 41.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nylani against Nyle, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nylani Nyle

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 109 years in which either name was published, Nyle for 106 years and Nylani for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Nylani Nyle
Total US births 5152,217
Most in one year 9196
Babies in 2025 9141
Estimated living today 5101,800
Median age today 314
Peak year 20252016
Best rank 2,064th girls1,655th boys
Rank in 2025 2,064th2,991st
First recorded 20071914
Girls / boys 515 / 044 / 2,173

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 Nyles alive today are over 14; half the Nylanis are over 3. That is 11 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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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