Nael
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #903 for boys in 2025, 263 births
Given to boys 96.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 263 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,458since 1975
Nael over time
Rank among boys' names. Nael has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | #903 | 263 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #1,035 | 215 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #1,128 | 187 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #1,695 | 101 |
| 2021 | — | #1,635 | 102 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,833 | 81 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,943 | 41 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,848 | 42 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #2,755 | 44 |
| 2016 | — | #2,993 | 39 | |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #3,513 | 31 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #3,891 | 26 |
| 2013 | — | #3,339 | 32 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,862 | 19 | |
| 2011 | — | #5,433 | 16 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,047 | 18 | |
| 2009 | — | #6,802 | 12 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,249 | 17 | |
| 2007 | — | #7,094 | 11 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,865 | 18 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,824 | 17 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,143 | 8 | |
| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
| 2002 | — | #8,456 | 7 | |
| 2001 | — | #8,339 | 7 | |
| 2000 | — | #6,839 | 9 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,317 | 12 | |
| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
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| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
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| 1991 | — | #5,096 | 10 | |
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| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
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| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
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| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nael! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1986, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Nael
- 132 spots since 2024 (#1,035 → #903)
- 930 spots since 2020 (#1,833 → #903)
- 2,610 spots since 2015 (#3,513 → #903)
- Biggest jump: 132 spots in 2025 (#1,035 → #903)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2025 at #903 (263 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,495 boys born in 2025 were named Nael (0.02%)
- 65.1% of all boys named Nael (949) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11 | #4,797 (1975) | #5,285 |
| 1980s | 26 | #6,089 (1987) | #6,807 |
| 1990s | 52 | #5,096 (1991) | #7,293 |
| 2000s | 112 | #4,824 (2005) | #7,019 |
| 2010s | 308 | #2,755 (2017) | #3,762 |
| 2020s | 949 | #903 (2025) | #1,372 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nael in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 231,456 of them was named Nael, which outranked 31.4% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,122Zurianna8
- #11,122Zuriella8
- #11,122Zylynn8
- #12,161Nael7
- #12,161Aadhvika7
- #12,161Aadhyasri7
- #12,161Aagya7
- #13,477Aada6
- #13,477Aadiya6
- #13,477Aalaysia6
Tied with 1,315 names at #12,161; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 8,013 of them was named Nael, which outranked 92.8% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).