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Naydelin vs Nayeli

American parents have registered 24,665 Nayelis since 1880, against 1,136 Naydelins. Nayeli is still ahead, with 1,151 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Naydelin against Nayeli, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Naydelin Nayeli

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

Nayeli has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Naydelin had 157 and Nayeli had 699.

Side by side

  Naydelin Nayeli
Total US births 1,13624,665
Most in one year 1571,845
Babies in 2025 371,151
Estimated living today 1,10024,000
Median age today 1515
Peak year 20032001
Best rank 1,313th girls175th girls
Rank in 2025 3,903rd270th
First recorded 19981977
Girls / boys 1,136 / 024,651 / 14

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.

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