Nayel is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Nael, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Nayel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 89 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,804 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Nayel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,804 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Nayel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 89 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,804 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 89 (2025).
In 2025, 89 US boys were named Nayel, making it the 1,804th most common boys’ name of the year, up 400 places from #2,204 in 2024. That is 23 more than the 66 boys named Nayel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,804, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 89. For comparison, it was #4,840 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nayel in 15 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2009 with 6 babies. In all, 508 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 327 babies named Nayel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 449 US boys were named Nayel; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 89. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,192 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nayel ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #976 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nael (1,519 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Nayel 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 13 | #976 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,054 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,101 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,201 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,380 | — |
| California | 9 | #1,781 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).