Neeka
Neeka was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 246 Americans have been recorded with it between 1931 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 Neeka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Neeka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,906, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 2002, the peak
Neeka peaked in 2002, when 14 girls were given it, #7,711 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,906 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,620 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,131 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,500 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,090 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,584 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,456 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,982 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,211 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,454 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 9 | #12,373 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,199 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,682 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,517 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,062 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,711 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,182 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,480 | 5.0 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,622 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,159 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,339 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,868 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,387 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,046 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,010 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,491 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,676 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,888 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,872 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,337 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,413 | 6.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,424 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,204 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Neeka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neeka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neeka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neeka, and how old are they?
An estimated 236 Americans named Neeka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 324 people named Neeka (317 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 229 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% 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 3,296 babies since 1880, Neeka is the fourth most given (7.5% of them).
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 Neeka
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 Neeka and names like it
- Compare Neeka and NnekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNeeka peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Neeka since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Neeka.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Neeka alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.