Nayelie
Nayelie was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,623 among girls’ names; 537 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nayelie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nayelie?
#11,623 among girls’ names, 2025
Nayelie fell from #8,312 in 2015 to #11,623 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 5.0 per million.
53 babies in 2001, the peak
Nayelie peaked in 2001, when 53 girls were given it, #2,796 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,623 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,849 | 4.9 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,484 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,109 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,059 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,115 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,650 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,014 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,262 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,312 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #9,979 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,409 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,668 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,498 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,068 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,191 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,421 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,906 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,918 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,921 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,668 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,804 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,702 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,796 | 29.4 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,478 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,076 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,403 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,237 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,866 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,284 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nayelie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nayelie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nayelie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nayelie, and how old are they?
An estimated 532 Americans named Nayelie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 467 people named Nayelie (467 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 492 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 Nayelie born?
The states with the most babies named Nayelie are California, Texas and New York, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 125 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 69 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Connecticut | 5 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Nayelie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nayelie is most over-represented in California: since 1993 it was given 1.7 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 girls’ 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 Nayelie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Nayelie?
Nayelie is a less common spelling of Nayeli: SSA has recorded 537 Nayelie and 24,665 Nayeli since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,273 babies since 1880, Nayelie is the fourth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 1,239 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Nayelie
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 Nayelie and names like it
- Compare Nayelie and NayeliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNayelie peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nayelie since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Nayelie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nayelie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.