girls:
1.4k births since 1988
#4320 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1988
#6334 (18th percentile)
The name Nayelli is the #6,334 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,410 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 18.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,320 (24.4% percentile) for all time with 1,410 births since 1988.
Nayelli first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (first recorded for girls in 1988). Birth data for Nayelli is available in 35 out of the 36 years between 1988 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Nayelli reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 12.3% percentile (ranked #788) with 58 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 58 births per million (ranked 12.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Nayelli ranks #919 for girls (3.0% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 32.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nayelli".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Nayelli. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.9% confident that Nayelli is pronounced as nah-YEH-lee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nay-EH-lee, at 15.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like N AA0 Y EH1 L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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