Neena
Neena was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,285 among girls’ names; 1,775 Americans have been recorded with it since 1939 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Neena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Neena?
#9,285 among girls’ names, 2025
Neena fell from #5,612 in 2015 to #9,285 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 6.8 per million.
48 babies in 2004, the peak
Neena peaked in 2004, when 48 girls were given it, #3,207 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,285 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,302 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,427 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,534 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,905 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,283 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,120 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,730 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,554 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,951 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,612 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,128 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,984 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,680 | 17.6 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,881 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,936 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,445 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,149 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,898 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,402 | 25.2 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,703 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,207 | 26.1 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,709 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,087 | 26.2 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,168 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,045 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,547 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,543 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,680 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,276 | 20.5 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,740 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,148 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,128 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,046 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,689 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,462 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,535 | 15.7 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,858 | 13.5 |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,009 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,138 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,059 | 17.4 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,584 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,818 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,878 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,119 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,685 | 21.1 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,309 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,248 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,359 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,465 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,769 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,397 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,201 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,026 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,392 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,684 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,200 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,410 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,602 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,689 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,728 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,324 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,579 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,124 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,723 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,072 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,378 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,190 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,471 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,017 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,447 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,888 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,894 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,643 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,541 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,365 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,087 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,507 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,133 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,295 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,316 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,411 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,166 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,009 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,750 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Neena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neena, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,775 Americans ever recorded as Neena. The median Neena alive today is 30 years old; half are between 19 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 2,435 people named Neena (2,428 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,627 born in the U.S. The Census count is 50% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 16 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 207 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 211 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 414 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 578 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 244 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 12,467 babies since 1880, Neena is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 68 babies (16%), 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 Neena
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 Neena and names like it
- Compare Neena and NenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNeena peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Neena since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Neena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Neena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.