In 2025, 40 US girls were named Nayelli, making it the 3,753rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 785 places from #4,538 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 31 girls named Nayelli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,606, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 115. For comparison, it was #4,374 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nayelli in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 1,482 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 613 babies named Nayelli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 390 US girls were named Nayelli; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nayeli (24,665 babies since 1880) and Nayely (2,678 babies since 1880).