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Nayelli vs Nayomi

American parents have registered 1,482 Nayellis since 1880, against 1,404 Nayomis. But in 2025 it was Nayomi that was commoner, 60 babies to 40.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nayelli against Nayomi, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nayelli Nayomi

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 39 years in which either name was published, Nayelli for 21 years and Nayomi for 18 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Nayelli Nayomi
Total US births 1,4821,404
Most in one year 11578
Babies in 2025 4060
Estimated living today 1,5001,400
Median age today 1610
Peak year 20012022
Best rank 1,600th girls2,364th girls
Rank in 2025 3,712th2,822nd
First recorded 19881984
Girls / boys 1,482 / 01,404 / 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 Nayomis are over 10. That is 6 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 Nayomi.