Nealy — unisex name

What the Data Says About Nealy

The Social Security Administration has registered 296 babies named Nealy between 1884 and 2019, spanning 136 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nealy currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Nealy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 83 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nealy performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 66 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Nealy shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nealy 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 296 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.