Nael
Nael was given to 263 boys in 2025, #905 among boys’ names; 1,519 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Nael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nael?
#905 among boys’ names, 2025
Nael rose from #3,562 in 2015 to #905 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.15 per 1,000.
280 babies in 2025, the peak
Nael peaked in 2025, when 280 babies were given it (263 boys, #905 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 215 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 263 | #905 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 215 | #1,037 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 187 | #1,133 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 101 | #1,697 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 102 | #1,642 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 81 | #1,843 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,974 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,874 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 44 | #2,784 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,044 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #3,562 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,978 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,382 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,975 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,590 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,175 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,097 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,411 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,436 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,989 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,958 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,675 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,461 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,085 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,937 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,215 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,548 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,775 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,295 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,701 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,534 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,363 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,816 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,129 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,686 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,248 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,945 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,467 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,249 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,519 Americans recorded as Nael, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls and 263 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nael, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,519 Americans ever recorded as Nael. The median Nael alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 836 people named Nael (49 women and girls, 787 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 547 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 49 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 184 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,260 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nael born?
The states with the most babies named Nael are Texas, California and New York, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 36 | #770 | 1.1× |
| California | 36 | #741 | 0.8× |
| New York | 24 | #632 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 17 | #874 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 13 | #578 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 12 | #584 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 10 | #847 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 9 | #964 | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 8 | #615 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #601 | 0.5× |
Where Nael is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nael is most over-represented in Texas: since 1975 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nael with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,514 babies since 1880, Nael is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 280 of their 392 babies (71%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nael
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nael and names like it
- Compare Nael and NayelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNael peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nael since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Nael.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nael alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.