Meaning not yet researched.
Nael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 263 in 2025. Its best rank was #905 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 94% of babies named Nael in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#905 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Nael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 263 boys in 2025. Peak: #905 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 263 (2025).
In 2025, 263 US boys were named Nael, making it the 905th most common boys’ name of the year, up 132 places from #1,037 in 2024. That is 48 more than the 215 boys named Nael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #905, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 263. For comparison, it was #3,563 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nael in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 6 babies. In all, 1,519 US babies have been given the name, 4.0% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 986 babies named Nael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,115 US boys were named Nael; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 263. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,495 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nael ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #578 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Noel (67,380 babies since 1880), Neal (55,305 babies since 1880) and Nathanael (22,244 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nayel, Nahuel and Naelle are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Nayel (508), Nahuel (246), Naelle (153), Naol (147), Nahel (94), Nahal (85), Nail (39), Nahil (22), Naiel (21), Naail (18), Nayele (13), Naayel (6), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nael in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 13 | #578 | — |
| Arizona | 12 | #584 | — |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #601 | — |
| Maryland | 8 | #615 | — |
| New York | 24 | #632 | — |
| California | 36 | #741 | #2,461 |
| Texas | 36 | #770 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #778 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #781 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #847 | — |
| Florida | 17 | #874 | #1,876 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #879 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #964 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,376 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,749 | 263 | #905 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,061 | 215 | #1,037 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,880 | 187 | #1,133 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,009 | 101 | #1,697 |
| 2021 | — | — | 102 | #1,642 |
| 2020 | — | — | 81 | #1,843 |
| 2019 | — | — | 41 | #2,976 |
| 2018 | — | — | 42 | #2,875 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,656 | 44 | #2,785 |
| 2016 | — | — | 39 | #3,045 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,794 | 31 | #3,563 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,952 | 26 | #3,981 |
| 2013 | — | — | 32 | #3,384 |
| 2012 | — | — | 19 | #4,980 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,595 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,178 |
| 2009 | — | — | 12 | #7,102 |
| 2008 | — | — | 17 | #5,416 |
| 2007 | — | — | 11 | #7,440 |
| 2006 | — | — | 18 | #4,993 |
| 2005 | — | — | 17 | #4,963 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,681 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #10,468 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #9,092 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #8,944 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,223 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,554 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,784 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,301 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,708 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,541 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,369 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,388 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,824 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,136 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,693 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,254 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,947 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,470 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,251 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).