Nayelie
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- nay-YEL-ee
- Origin
- Native American
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Nayelie is a girls' name of Native American origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Nayelie mean?
Native American: spelling of Nayeli; said to be Zapotec, an Indigenous language of Mexico
Used mainly in Mexico and the US, it is often said to come from Zapotec, spoken in Oaxaca, though this is uncertain.
Meaning borrowed from Nayeli.
Is Nayelie a girl's or a boy's name?
Nayelie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nayelie in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Nayelie, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2001, with 53 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
Half of all the girls named Nayelie in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,205 girls in the US were given Nayelie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #282, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Nayelie in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,252 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,555 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,332 |
| 2010 | 28 | #4,972 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,096 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,105 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,806 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,810 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,872 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,597 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,571 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,650 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,762 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,011 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,712 |
Names like Nayelie
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ellie, Amelie, Mackenzie, Addison, Emerson, Nevaeh, Chloe, Elodie, Zoe, Macie, Madison, Annalise
Other spellings of Nayelie
Names related to Nayelie
More Native American names
Dakota, Tallulah, Winona, Kenai, Cree, Xochitl, Xitlali, Citlali, Alaska, Talulah, Sequoia, Denali, Tennessee, Dakoda, Lakota, Wynonna
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Nayelie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nayelie, updated 20 October 2026.