Meaning not yet researched.
Nayeli: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,151 in 2025. Its best rank was #175 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #175 in 2001; #271 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nayeli in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#271 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #175.
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Nayeli: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,151 girls in 2025. Peak: #175 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 1,845 (2001).
In 2025, 1,151 US girls were named Nayeli, making it the 271st most common girls’ name of the year, up 47 places from #318 in 2024. That is 187 more than the 964 girls named Nayeli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #175, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,845. For comparison, it was #458 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nayeli in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 6 babies. In all, 24,665 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 9,311 babies named Nayeli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,336 US girls were named Nayeli; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,151. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,396 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nayeli ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #99 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Nayely (2,678 babies since 1880) and Nayelli (1,482 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nayelie, Nayelly and Anallely are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Nayelie (537), Nayelly (488), Anallely (220), Nayellie (135), Nayali (120), Nali (80), Naiyeli (79), Nayelee (54), Naely (47), Naeli (43), Nayli (27), Nayelii (24), 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 Nayeli in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 14 | #99 | #239 |
| Arizona | 51 | #123 | #269 |
| California | 220 | #138 | #248 |
| Texas | 214 | #149 | #253 |
| Nevada | 16 | #160 | #277 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #170 | — |
| Colorado | 33 | #183 | #290 |
| Oklahoma | 21 | #194 | #460 |
| Illinois | 43 | #246 | #409 |
| Washington | 28 | #260 | #428 |
| North Carolina | 40 | #278 | #877 |
| Maryland | 19 | #280 | #558 |
| Virginia | 30 | #282 | #428 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #285 | — |
| Oregon | 13 | #290 | #568 |
| Florida | 65 | #293 | #464 |
| Idaho | 8 | #300 | — |
| Indiana | 24 | #302 | #919 |
| Alabama | 15 | #340 | — |
| Kansas | 10 | #351 | #447 |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #359 | #473 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #361 | — |
| Georgia | 30 | #375 | #874 |
| New York | 46 | #375 | #777 |
| New Jersey | 21 | #386 | #524 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #439 | #664 |
| Tennessee | 17 | #473 | #909 |
| Utah | 9 | #473 | #819 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #496 | #652 |
| Michigan | 17 | #499 | #708 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #528 | #388 |
| Missouri | 11 | #546 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #552 | #664 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #882 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #942 | #1,412 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,151 | #271 | — | — |
| 2024 | 964 | #318 | — | — |
| 2023 | 931 | #333 | — | — |
| 2022 | 957 | #337 | — | — |
| 2021 | 817 | #383 | — | — |
| 2020 | 724 | #424 | — | — |
| 2019 | 738 | #434 | — | — |
| 2018 | 755 | #410 | — | — |
| 2017 | 629 | #498 | — | — |
| 2016 | 670 | #474 | — | — |
| 2015 | 692 | #458 | — | — |
| 2014 | 810 | #402 | — | — |
| 2013 | 773 | #398 | — | — |
| 2012 | 849 | #369 | — | — |
| 2011 | 827 | #382 | — | — |
| 2010 | 823 | #388 | — | — |
| 2009 | 866 | #373 | — | — |
| 2008 | 947 | #352 | — | — |
| 2007 | 869 | #378 | — | — |
| 2006 | 809 | #399 | — | — |
| 2005 | 844 | #372 | — | — |
| 2004 | 792 | #391 | 5 | #12,644 |
| 2003 | 699 | #432 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,208 | #263 | 9 | #7,457 |
| 2001 | 1,845 | #175 | — | — |
| 2000 | 418 | #607 | — | — |
| 1999 | 302 | #743 | — | — |
| 1998 | 270 | #795 | — | — |
| 1997 | 235 | #871 | — | — |
| 1996 | 228 | #872 | — | — |
| 1995 | 194 | #973 | — | — |
| 1994 | 181 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1993 | 188 | #987 | — | — |
| 1992 | 175 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 1991 | 150 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1990 | 95 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,041 | — | — |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,308 | — | — |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,180 | — | — |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,944 | — | — |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,971 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,676 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,965 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,792 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,251 | — | — |
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).