girls:
3.2k births since 1885
#3055 (47th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1885
#4803 (38th percentile)
The name Neoma is the #4,803 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,219 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 37.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,055 (46.5% percentile) for all time with 3,219 births since 1885.
Neoma first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (first recorded for girls in 1885). Birth data for Neoma is available in 113 out of the 139 years between 1885 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, Neoma reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 17.1% percentile (ranked #506) with 85 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 98 births per million (ranked 7.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Neoma ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Neoma".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Neoma. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.4% confident that Neoma is pronounced as nee-OH-muh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NEE-oh-muh, at 22.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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