girls:
275 births since 1997
#5441 (5th percentile)
overall:
275 births since 1997
#7464 (4th percentile)
The name Neya is the #7,464 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 275 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 3.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,441 (4.8% percentile) for all time with 275 births since 1997.
Neya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (first recorded for girls in 1997). Birth data for Neya is available in 26 out of the 27 years between 1997 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, Neya reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #945) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Neya ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 91.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Neya".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Neya is pronounced as NAY-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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