Nayeli is a given name of Zapotec origin with uncertain meaning. It possibly derived from ‘nayele’ meaning ‘open’. This name is used in the US, Mexico, and, since the 21st century, also in Spain.
Nayeli is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Nayeli isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Nayeli ranks 386. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Nayeli. In the entire USA, approximately 20,597 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Nayeli. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Nayeli is a given name of Zapotec origin with uncertain meaning. It possibly derived from ‘nayele’ meaning ‘open’. This name is used in the US, Mexico, and, since the 21st century, also in Spain.
The Zapotec languages ... are a group of around 50 closely related indigenous Mesoamerican languages. There are about half a million speakers living in southern Mexico.
Nayeli is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Nayeli cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #166 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2001. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Nayeli, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Nayeli seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Nayeli was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
951 babies were named Nayeli in 2022 - that's 1 in 155,870 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Nayeli ranked 306 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Nayeli is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.
If your name is Nayeli and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nayeli, you can simply say:
Nut
Apple
Yoyo
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nayeli
Nayeli
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Nayeli sounds like this: