B737 first officer reported navigating to wrong; similar sounding; waypoint on STAR.

Attributes
ACN	1701567
Time
Date	201911
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZOA.ARTCC
State Reference	CA
Environment
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737-700
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	STAR SERFR3
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 477
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types

Narrative:

While in cruise flight on the serfr 3 arrival; oakland center cleared us direct to the nrrli way point. We mistakenly selected the narwl way point and began navigating to that fix. After a minute; ATC queried our track and asked if we were going to nrrli. Recognizing our error; we reprogrammed the FMC to change our course for nrrli. ATC indicated that this was a common error and that they were in the process of making a change to the arrival. In the future; I will be more aware of this deviation while on the serfr arrival and be careful before making any changes to fixes in the FMC.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 First Officer reported navigating to wrong; similar sounding; waypoint on STAR.

Narrative: While in cruise flight on the SERFR 3 Arrival; Oakland Center cleared us direct to the NRRLI way point. We mistakenly selected the NARWL way point and began navigating to that fix. After a minute; ATC queried our track and asked if we were going to NRRLI. Recognizing our error; we reprogrammed the FMC to change our course for NRRLI. ATC indicated that this was a common error and that they were in the process of making a change to the arrival. In the future; I will be more aware of this deviation while on the SERFR Arrival and be careful before making any changes to fixes in the FMC.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.