Girls' name · since 1974
Neera
Neera has 165 recorded births since 1974 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2021 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #21,788 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,007 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 165
- born since 1974
- 2020s
- peak decade
Neera currently ranks #9007 among girls' names in America, with 165 babies recorded since 1974.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Neera has been recorded 165 times among girls since 1974, currently ranked #9007 nationally and more common than 48% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1974 to 2025.
- #21,788 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,007 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 165 born since 1974
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Neera ranks #21,788 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,007 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 165 born since 1974, peaking in the 2020s.
- #21,788 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,007 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 165
- born since 1974
- 2020s
- peak decade
Neera's 165 recorded births place it above 69.85% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Neera compares
165 33rd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Neera's all-time total is 56% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Neera | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 165 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 16 | 21 | 19,840 |
Neera's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Neera's full recorded timeline at 2015, 62% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 38% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1974, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2021 peak of 16 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Neera popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1974–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 52 years of records
Neera by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (60 births, 36% of the file).
2020s was Neera's strongest decade.
60 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 36% of all-time use.
Neera births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 10
1970s
10 births
- 1980s 11
1980s
11 births
- 2000s
2000s
29 births
- 2010s
2010s
55 births
- 2020s
2020s
60 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 60 births (36% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1974–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Neera draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.