Nayéli

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nayéli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Said to mean "I love you" in Zapotec [Term?].

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 6.3K
  • USUnited States1 in 17K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

19,291 people, 2020

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nayeli in US United States, EC Ecuador, ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Said to mean "I love you" in Zapotec [Term?].

Sources 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nayéli counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Nayéli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States19,2911 in 17K19KNayeli23
EC Ecuador15,9441 in 1.1K16KNayeli8
ES Spain1,3511 in 37K1.4KNayeli6
CR Costa Rica8091 in 6.3K809——
BR Brazil3241 in 653K324——
UY Uruguay1671 in 20K167——

19,291 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nayéli is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name97 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Peru, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese

    Also written Nayeli, Nayelí, Näyëlï, Näyëli, Nayelï

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nayéli under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nayéli mean, and where does it come from?
Said to mean "I love you" in Zapotec [Term?]. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Nayéli a male or female name?
Nayéli is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Nayéli have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Nayéli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nayeli.
Where is Nayéli most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nayéli is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nayéli?
In the United States, the national register counted 19,291 people named Nayéli in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.

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The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nayéli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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