Neenah
Neenah was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 245 Americans have been recorded with it between 1949 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neenah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Neenah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,622, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2009, the peak
Neenah peaked in 2009, when 16 girls were given it, #7,962 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | #14,622 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,444 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,071 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,715 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,500 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,548 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,212 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,016 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,962 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,589 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 12 | #9,990 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,590 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,079 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,784 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,341 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,878 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,740 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,751 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,007 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,823 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,422 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,053 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,230 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,048 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,402 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,995 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,890 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,569 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,581 | 3.0 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,803 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Neenah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neenah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neenah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neenah, and how old are they?
An estimated 240 Americans named Neenah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 312 people named Neenah (309 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 237 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% 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 Neenah?
Neenah is a less common spelling of Neena: SSA has recorded 245 Neenah and 1,775 Neena since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,736 babies since 1880, Neenah is the fourth most given (3.2% 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 Neenah
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 Neenah and names like it
- Compare Neenah and NeenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNeenah peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Neenah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Neenah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.