Neah — #8563 US girls' name
547 babies named Neah in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 52% of names given to girls today.
41% of everyone ever named Neah was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Neah in 2006 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Neah
The Social Security Administration has registered 547 babies named Neah between 1980 and 2024, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Neah currently holds the #8563 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Neah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 226 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Neah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Neah in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Neah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 547 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Neah at a glance
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Current rank
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Neah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1980
- Peak year (2006)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 45 years of records
Currently ranks #8563 among girls.
547 total births across 45 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2006 with 30 births in a single year.
Neah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 226 births that decade — 41% of Neah's all-time total
Neah decade highlights
- Peak decade 226 births
- Runner-up 165 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Neah's strongest decade
226 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Neah by state
Where Neah concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 7 | 1.3% |
| #2 | California | | 5 | 0.9% |
7 of 547 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.3% of nationwide
- California 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1980–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.