Nayelli
Nayelli was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,752 among girls’ names; 1,482 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,470 Americans named Nayelli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nayelli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nayelli?
#3,752 among girls’ names, 2025
Nayelli rose from #4,373 in 2015 to #3,752 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 18.5 to 24.9 per million.
115 babies in 2001, the peak
Nayelli peaked in 2001, when 115 girls were given it, #1,605 among girls’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,752 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,536 | 19.1 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,253 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,354 | 29.3 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,782 | 24.4 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,238 | 20.4 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,769 | 23.8 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,721 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,352 | 19.1 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,268 | 28.2 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,373 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,468 | 25.8 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,683 | 23.9 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,855 | 34.6 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,338 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,833 | 34.9 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,921 | 32.7 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,410 | 25.9 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,317 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 57 | #3,006 | 30.0 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,775 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,831 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,109 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,168 | 42.9 |
| 2001 | 115 | #1,605 | 63.9 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,437 | 21.5 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,936 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,993 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,208 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,999 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,958 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,587 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,920 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,521 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,211 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,830 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,211 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nayelli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nayelli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nayelli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nayelli, and how old are they?
1,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,482 Americans ever recorded as Nayelli. The median Nayelli alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,296 people named Nayelli (1,295 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,254 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 99 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 861 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 508 |
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 Nayelli born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #2,049 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,844 | 2.2× |
Where Nayelli is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nayelli is most over-represented in Texas: since 1988 it was given 2.2 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 Nayelli 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 Nayelli?
Nayelli is a less common spelling of Nayeli: SSA has recorded 1,482 Nayelli and 24,665 Nayeli since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,258 babies since 1880, Nayelli is the third most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 1,232 babies (3.2%), the second 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 Nayelli
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 Nayelli and names like it
- Compare Nayelli and NayeliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNayelli peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nayelli since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Nayelli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nayelli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.