first name
NAYELI
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 19,291 people named Nayeli, 94.3% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 2.4% as White and 1.6% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Nayeli peaked in 2001, when 1,845 babies got the name.
At least 24,665 babies have been given the name since 1977. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Nayeli by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #667. The largest share of babies named Nayeli, 51.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Nayeli is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nayeli has been most common in Nevada (4.8×), Arizona (3.2×), and California (2.8×), and least common in Kentucky (0.1×).
23,601 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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