girls:
4.3k births since 1969
#2613 (54th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1969
#4177 (46th percentile)
The name Neha is the #4,177 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,308 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 46.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,613 (54.3% percentile) for all time with 4,308 births since 1969.
Neha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (first recorded for girls in 1969).
For girls, Neha reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 23.8% percentile (ranked #684) with 110 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 111 births per million (ranked 23.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Neha ranks #923 for girls (2.5% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 15.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Neha".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Neha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.2% confident that Neha is pronounced as NEH-huh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NAY-huh, at 28.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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