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Nayelli vs Naylani

American parents have registered 1,482 Nayellis since 1880, against 1,206 Naylanis. But in 2025 it was Naylani that was commoner, 296 babies to 40.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nayelli against Naylani, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nayelli Naylani

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 37 years in which either name was published, Nayelli for 28 years and Naylani for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Nayelli Naylani
Total US births 1,4821,206
Most in one year 115296
Babies in 2025 40296
Estimated living today 1,5001,200
Median age today 163
Peak year 20012025
Best rank 1,600th girls895th girls
Rank in 2025 3,712th895th
First recorded 19882002
Girls / boys 1,482 / 01,206 / 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 Nayellis alive today are over 16; half the Naylanis are over 3. That is 13 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.

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