Nealy
Nealy was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 379 Americans have been recorded with it between 1884 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nealy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nealy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,288, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1976, the peak
Nealy peaked in 1976, when 18 girls were given it, #3,774 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #17,288 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,412 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,583 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,771 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,385 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,338 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,996 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,381 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,354 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,618 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #13,221 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,915 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,621 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,851 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,244 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,594 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,282 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,566 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,579 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,112 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,192 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,774 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,768 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,926 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,337 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,475 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 5 | #3,865 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 5 | #3,636 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 6 | #3,448 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 5 | #3,873 | |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,025 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 6 | #3,645 | |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,085 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,226 | 8 | #3,278 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,806 | 6 | #4,052 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,491 | 8 | #3,367 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,855 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 5 | #4,778 | |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,663 | 7 | #3,603 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,101 | 8 | #3,122 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,942 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,108 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,034 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,731 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,905 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,145 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,869 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,641 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,230 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 7 | #905 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Nealy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 379 Americans recorded as Nealy, 78% are girls and 22% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nealy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nealy, and how old are they?
An estimated 200 Americans named Nealy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (53% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 21 and 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 369 people named Nealy (286 women and girls, 83 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 211 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 24,841 babies since 1880, Nealy is the eighth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 391 babies recorded by SSA was a Nealy (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Nealy and names like it
- Compare Nealy and NellyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNealy peaked in 1976.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Nealy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Nealy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.