Neco
Neco was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 225 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neco by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Neco?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,835, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1989, the peak
Neco peaked in 1989, when 13 boys were given it, #4,197 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | under 5 | 6 | #11,835 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #13,749 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #13,483 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #13,472 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 6 | #11,716 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 7 | #10,398 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 12 | #7,106 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #13,995 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #11,917 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #13,417 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #12,171 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #11,776 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 11 | #6,189 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 8 | #7,647 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 11 | #5,398 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 8 | #6,783 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 9 | #6,076 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 10 | #5,524 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 9 | #5,794 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 13 | #4,331 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 13 | #4,197 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 7 | #6,240 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,866 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,255 | |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,376 | 5 | #5,756 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,337 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,014 | 5 | #5,424 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,891 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,283 | 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 Neco a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 225 Americans recorded as Neco, 17% are girls and 83% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Neco: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neco, and how old are they?
An estimated 216 Americans named Neco and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 19 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 228 people named Neco (52 women and girls, 176 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 199 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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).
How common is the spelling Neco?
Neco is a less common spelling of Neko: SSA has recorded 225 Neco and 1,248 Neko since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,690 babies since 1880, Neco is the fourth most given (8.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 71 babies recorded by SSA was a Neco (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 Neco and names like it
- Compare Neco and NekoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNeco peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Neco.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Neco alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.