Nayel
Nayel was given to 89 boys in 2025, #1,804 among boys’ names; 508 Americans have been recorded with it since 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nayel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nayel?
#1,804 among boys’ names, 2025
Nayel rose from #4,838 in 2015 to #1,804 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 10.4 to 52.1 per million.
89 babies in 2025, the peak
Nayel peaked in 2025, when 89 boys were given it, #1,804 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 66 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89 | #1,804 | 52.1 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,204 | 38.3 |
| 2023 | 49 | #2,680 | 28.6 |
| 2022 | 50 | #2,665 | 28.6 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,060 | 22.9 |
| 2020 | 28 | #3,780 | 16.2 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,686 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,657 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,192 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,168 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,838 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,639 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,395 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,620 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,019 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nayel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nayel has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 15 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nayel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nayel, and how old are they?
An estimated 504 Americans named Nayel 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 8. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 281 people named Nayel (52 women and girls, 229 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 187 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,514 babies since 1880, Nayel is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 89 of their 392 babies (23%), again the second 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 Nayel
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 Nayel and names like it
- Compare Nayel and NaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nayel since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Nayel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nayel alive today were born 2013-2025.
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