Neha
Neha was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,661 among girls’ names; 4,351 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,280 Americans named Neha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Neha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Neha is “a female given name from Hindi, of mainly Indian usage.”
Borrowed from Hindi नेहा (nehā). Doublet of snow.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Neha?
#5,661 among girls’ names, 2025
Neha fell from #3,463 in 2015 to #5,661 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 13.7 per million.
223 babies in 2004, the peak
Neha peaked in 2004, when 223 girls were given it, #1,040 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,661 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,911 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,716 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,147 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,099 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,439 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,866 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,056 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,973 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,981 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,463 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,636 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,253 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 90 | #2,128 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,116 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,840 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 158 | #1,474 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 143 | #1,595 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 166 | #1,430 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 173 | #1,349 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 195 | #1,184 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 223 | #1,040 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 199 | #1,108 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 215 | #1,012 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 199 | #1,071 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 219 | #968 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 162 | #1,191 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 124 | #1,387 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 95 | #1,665 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,715 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 91 | #1,630 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 92 | #1,639 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,715 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,920 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 61 | #2,174 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 68 | #2,001 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,507 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 60 | #2,001 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,958 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,685 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,966 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,284 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,876 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,071 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,150 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,634 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,372 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,616 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,701 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,585 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,124 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,279 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,746 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,497 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,893 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,332 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Neha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neha, and how old are they?
4,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,351 Americans ever recorded as Neha. The median Neha alive today is 24 years old; half are between 19 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 10,101 people named Neha (10,084 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,166 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 255 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 468 |
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).
Where are babies named Neha born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,698 | 1.2× |
Where Neha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Neha is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1969 it was given 3.1 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 girls’ 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 Neha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,596 babies since 1880, Neha is the second most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 70 babies (31%), the most given that year.
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 Neha
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 Neha and names like it
- Compare Neha and NenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNeha peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Neha since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Neha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Neha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.