girls:
2.2k births since 1889
#3705 (35th percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1889
#5635 (27th percentile)
The name Neda is the #5,635 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,153 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 27.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,705 (35.2% percentile) for all time with 2,153 births since 1889.
Neda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (first recorded for girls in 1889). Birth data for Neda is available in 117 out of the 135 years between 1889 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Neda reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #759) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 26 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Neda ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 38.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Neda".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Neda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.9% confident that Neda is pronounced as NEH-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NAY-duh, at 40.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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