Neave
Neave was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 175 Americans have been recorded with it between 2003 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neave by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Neave mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Neave is “a male or female given name.”
Two main origins:
A variant of the English surname Neve.
Variant of Nevay, a Scottish habitational surname.
/niːv/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Neave?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,775, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2017, the peak
Neave peaked in 2017, when 16 girls were given it, #7,332 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,775 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,924 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,191 | 6.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,289 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,471 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,332 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,730 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,676 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,980 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,196 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #14,579 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,765 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,536 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,782 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,422 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,026 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,731 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,279 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,619 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Neave a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neave has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neave: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neave, and how old are they?
An estimated 174 Americans named Neave and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 9 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 188 people named Neave (174 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 149 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above 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 23,822 babies since 1880, Neave is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 123 babies recorded by SSA was a Neave (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Neave
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 Neave and names like it
- Compare Neave and NevaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNeave peaked in 2017.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Neave since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Neave.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Neave alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.