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Naylani vs Nayomi

American parents have registered 1,404 Nayomis since 1880, against 1,206 Naylanis. But in 2025 it was Naylani that was commoner, 296 babies to 60.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Naylani 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 35 years in which either name was published, Nayomi for 29 years and Naylani for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Naylani Nayomi
Total US births 1,2061,404
Most in one year 29678
Babies in 2025 29660
Estimated living today 1,2001,400
Median age today 310
Peak year 20252022
Best rank 895th girls2,364th girls
Rank in 2025 895th2,822nd
First recorded 20021984
Girls / boys 1,206 / 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 Nayomis alive today are over 10; half the Naylanis are over 3. That is 7 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: Naylani and Nayomi.