Neeko
Neeko was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,528 among boys’ names; 420 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neeko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Neeko?
#7,528 among boys’ names, 2025
Neeko fell from #5,908 in 2015 to #7,528 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 6.4 per million.
28 babies in 2022, the peak
Neeko peaked in 2022, when 28 boys were given it, #3,957 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,528 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,191 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,783 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,957 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,972 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,978 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,285 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,994 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,980 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,463 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,908 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,999 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,273 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,419 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,458 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,272 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,730 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,683 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,354 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,326 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,764 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,641 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,318 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,960 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,077 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,619 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,648 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,278 | 3.1 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,550 | 3.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,939 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,932 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,824 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Neeko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neeko has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neeko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neeko, and how old are they?
An estimated 415 Americans named Neeko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 299 people named Neeko (22 women and girls, 277 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 305 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,690 babies since 1880, Neeko is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 71 babies (15%), again the third most given.
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 Neeko
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 Neeko and names like it
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- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Neeko alive today were born 2013-2025.
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