Nayef — boys' name

What the Data Says About Nayef

The Social Security Administration has registered 104 babies named Nayef between 2008 and 2023, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nayef currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 11 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nayef performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 66 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Nayef shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nayef in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nayef in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 104 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.