Neev
Neev was given to 73 boys in 2025, #2,050 among boys’ names; 931 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neev by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Neev?
#2,050 among boys’ names, 2025
Neev rose from #2,553 in 2015 to #2,050 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 25.6 to 42.7 per million.
73 babies in 2025, the peak
Neev peaked in 2025, when 73 boys were given it, #2,050 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 70 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,050 | 42.7 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,127 | 40.6 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,410 | 33.3 |
| 2022 | 54 | #2,545 | 30.9 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,125 | 38.9 |
| 2020 | 42 | #2,872 | 24.3 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,352 | 32.3 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,159 | 35.8 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,206 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 54 | #2,403 | 28.5 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #2,553 | 25.6 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,967 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,105 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,680 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,756 | 14.7 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,777 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,254 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,799 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,355 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,278 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,829 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,979 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,382 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,778 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Neev a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neev has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neev: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neev, and how old are they?
An estimated 923 Americans named Neev and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 582 people named Neev (29 women and girls, 553 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 573 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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).
Where are babies named Neev born?
The states with the most babies named Neev are California, New Jersey and Washington, with 85% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey and Washington are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,107 | 1.7× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #809 | 3.5× |
| Washington | 8 | #785 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,476 | 0.5× |
Where Neev is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Neev is most over-represented in California: since 2001 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Neev with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Neev
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 Neev and names like it
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