Nayelí
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Nayelí is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 80th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Said to mean "I love you" in Zapotec [Term?].
- ECEcuador1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- MXMexico≈1 in 2.4K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 259 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈55,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nayeli in MX Mexico, US United States, EC Ecuador and 2 more.
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?].
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nayelí 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #268 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 427 | Nayeli | 179 |
| US United States | — | 19,291 | 1 in 17K | 19K | Nayeli | 259 |
| EC Ecuador | #368 | 15,944 | 1 in 1.1K | 16K | Nayeli | 25 |
| BO Bolivia | #80 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Nayeli | 24 |
| PY Paraguay | #285 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Nayeli | 17 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 809 | 1 in 6.3K | 809 | — | 19 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nayelí mean, and where does it come from?
- Said to mean "I love you" in Zapotec [Term?]. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Nayelí a male or female name?
- Nayelí 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 Nayelí have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 55 thousand people named Nayelí in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nayeli.
- Where is Nayelí most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nayelí is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nayelí?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,291 people named Nayelí in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Nayelí compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Nayelí is the 268th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nayelí?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nayel%C3%ADThe 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, “Nayelí” — the 268th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.