girls:
720 births since 1972
#4996 (13th percentile)
boys:
256 births since 1977
#4330 (6th percentile)
overall:
976 births since 1972
#6763 (13th percentile)
The name Neema is the #6,763 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 976 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 12.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,996 (12.6% percentile) for all time with 720 births since 1972. For boys, it ranks #4,330 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 256 births since 1977.
Neema first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for girls and 1977 for boys).
The name Neema has been given predominantly to girls, with 73.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Neema were girls.
For girls, Neema reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #903) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 26 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Neema ranks #919 for girls (3.0% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 73.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Neema reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #792) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Neema".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Neema is pronounced as NEE-muh, which has 2 syllables.
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