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Nayef

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Naif

Nayef has been given to 104 babies in the U.S. since 2008. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Nayef, 2023

1 in 368,000

Nayef over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nayef: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Naif

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nayef means

Nayef is a alternate transcription of Naif.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nayef is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈnaː.jif/ for Nayef.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nayef → Naif. The family’s meaning is “high, excellent”, recorded in the naming reference for Naif.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Naif.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 boys were recorded with the name Nayef between 2008 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2018; its best national rank was #7,355 in 2020.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Nayef?

Nayef had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
255,294 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nayef sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nayef. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nayefs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nayef was born before 2016 — so the typical Nayef is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
63.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
104
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Choose a decade

2010s — 63.5% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Nayef rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2018 (11)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,355
2020

Spellings of Nayef

Nayef is not the most common spelling — Hayes is, with 50.9% against Nayef's 0.25%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Nayef is used

Across 1910–2025, Nayef was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nayef has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nayef around the world

Where Nayef ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    2015–2025
    #3,822
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2015
    #2,414
    in 2015

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nayef by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,355
2020
Peak year
2018
11 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nayef

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Nayef

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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