Given name
Nayib
Nayib is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nayib through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 235
- 235 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 42 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,451 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +279%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,451 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 182 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nayib’s family of names
Nayib may belong to the same name family as NAYIBB. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nayib
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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