girls:
75 births since 1912
#5641 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.3k births since 1905
#2623 (43rd percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1905
#5425 (30th percentile)
The name Neville is the #5,425 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,397 recorded births since 1905. This represents the 29.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,623 (42.8% percentile) for all time with 2,322 births since 1905. For girls, it ranks #5,641 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 75 births since 1912.
Neville first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1905 (1905 for boys and 1912 for girls). Birth data for Neville is available in 114 out of the 118 years between 1905 and 2022 (114 years for boys and 12 years for girls). 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.
The name Neville has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Neville reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 6.9% percentile (ranked #485) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 57 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Neville reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #606) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1947.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Neville".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Neville.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Neville", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Neville.
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Neville. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.2% confident that Neville is pronounced as NEH-vihl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NEH-vuhl, at 48.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Neville? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Neville. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Neville, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like N EH1 V IH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker