Naylan
#13,314 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Naylan has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #13,314 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 5 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% boys, 25% girls all-time.
Babies named Naylan, 2025
1 in 663,000
Naylan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Naylan over time
In 2025, Naylan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Naylan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,314
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Naylan 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naylan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Naylans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Naylan was born before 2018 — so the typical Naylan is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 33.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 15
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Naylan 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
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2004 (5)
- Years since peak
- 21
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Naylan
Naylan is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 30.1% against Naylan's <0.01%.
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.
Naylan around the world
Where Naylan 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 & Wales2009–2024#5,120in 2024
- France2011–2025#774in 2025
- South Australia2012–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Naylan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Naylan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Naylan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.