girls:
500 births since 2001
#5216 (9th percentile)
overall:
500 births since 2001
#7239 (6th percentile)
The name Nayelis is the #7,239 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 500 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 6.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,216 (8.7% percentile) for all time with 500 births since 2001.
Nayelis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 (first recorded for girls in 2001).
For girls, Nayelis reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #860) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nayelis ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 36.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nayelis".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Nayelis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.3% confident that Nayelis is pronounced as nay-EH-lihs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nah-YEH-lihs, at 19.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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