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Nayely vs Naylani

American parents have registered 2,678 Nayelys since 1880, against 1,206 Naylanis. But in 2025 it was Naylani that was commoner, 296 babies to 13.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nayely against Naylani, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nayely 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 40 years in which either name was published, Nayely for 32 years and Naylani for 8 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Nayely Naylani
Total US births 2,6781,206
Most in one year 331296
Babies in 2025 13296
Estimated living today 2,6001,200
Median age today 223
Peak year 20012025
Best rank 731st girls895th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th895th
First recorded 19862002
Girls / boys 2,678 / 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 Nayelys alive today are over 22; half the Naylanis are over 3. That is 19 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: Nayely and Naylani.