Nayel
#1,804 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nayel has been given to 508 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #1,804 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 89 recorded.
Babies named Nayel, 2025
1 in 37,200
Nayel over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nayel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 37,200
- 89 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 19,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,804
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 25,820 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nayel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 25,820 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nayel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nayels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nayel was born before 2022 — so the typical Nayel is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 64.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 503
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 64.0% of all recorded uses (322).
Is Nayel 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
- +400
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,976
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,034
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 4.45×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (89)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.6% average annual change
Spellings of Nayel
Nayel is not the most common spelling — Axel is, with 20.5% against Nayel's 0.14%.
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 Nayel is used
Across 2016–2025, Nayel was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 34,329 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Virginia1 in 14,286
- 2New York1 in 16,667
- 3Texas1 in 33,333
- 4California1 in 50,000
- 5Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
- 6Georgia1 in 100,000
- 7Illinois1 in 100,000
- 8Washington1 in 100,000
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.
Nayel around the world
Where Nayel 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 & Wales2006–2025#782in 2025
- Scotland2016–2016#707in 2016
- France1996–2025#651in 2025
- Canada2014–2024#886in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Nayel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Nayel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nayel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.