Neera
Neera was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,286 among girls’ names; 165 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Neera mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Neera is “a unisex given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Neera?
#9,286 among girls’ names, 2025
Neera rose from #11,585 in 2015 to #9,286 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 6.8 per million.
16 babies in 2021, the peak
Neera peaked in 2021, when 16 girls were given it, #7,164 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,286 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,854 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,926 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,192 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,164 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,623 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,121 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,173 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,761 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,683 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,585 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,984 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,213 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,783 | 3.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,208 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,518 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,887 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,183 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,708 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,966 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,874 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,727 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Neera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neera, and how old are they?
An estimated 163 Americans named Neera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 531 people named Neera (530 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 105 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.1 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 726 babies since 1880, Neera is the most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 28 babies (39%), again the 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 Neera
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 Neera and names like it
- Compare Neera and NeraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNeera peaked in 2021.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Neera.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Neera alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.