Neah
Neah was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,810 among girls’ names; 554 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Neah?
#12,810 among girls’ names, 2025
Neah fell from #6,184 in 2015 to #12,810 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 4.4 per million.
30 babies in 2006, the peak
Neah peaked in 2006, when 30 girls were given it, #4,762 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,810 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,801 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,497 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,189 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,537 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,605 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,118 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,022 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,331 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,240 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,184 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,989 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,105 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,054 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,317 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,914 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,738 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,297 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,994 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,762 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,732 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,110 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,515 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,666 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,182 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,748 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,398 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,865 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,600 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,965 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,229 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,395 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,595 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,215 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,578 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Neah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neah, and how old are they?
An estimated 549 Americans named Neah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 493 people named Neah (476 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 467 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,066 babies since 1880, Neah is the third most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 59 babies (12%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Neah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Neah and names like it
- Compare Neah and NenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNeah peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Neah since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Neah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Neah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.