Neely — #5425 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Neely

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,202 babies named Neely between 1888 and 2024, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Neely currently holds the #5425 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1974, when 75 babies received it in a single year. Neely is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 391 additional births since 1890.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Neely performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 534 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Neely shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 198 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Neely in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Neely in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,202 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.