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Naila vs Naiomi

American parents have registered 3,235 Nailas since 1880, against 1,190 Naiomis. Naila is still ahead, with 118 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Naila against Naiomi, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Naila Naiomi

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 52 years in which either name was published, Naila for 50 years and Naiomi for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Naila Naiomi
Total US births 3,2351,190
Most in one year 23182
Babies in 2025 11882
Estimated living today 3,2001,200
Median age today 1110
Peak year 20192025
Best rank 1,083rd girls2,239th girls
Rank in 2025 1,721st2,239th
First recorded 19531973
Girls / boys 3,235 / 01,190 / 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 Naila Naiomi
England and Wales 78438

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: Naila and Naiomi.