Neiko
Neiko was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,108 among boys’ names; 797 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neiko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Neiko?
#4,108 among boys’ names, 2025
Neiko rose from #5,210 in 2015 to #4,108 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.4 to 15.2 per million.
46 babies in 2020, the peak
Neiko peaked in 2020, when 46 boys were given it, #2,716 among boys’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,108 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,992 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,097 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,742 | 17.2 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,104 | 22.3 |
| 2020 | 46 | #2,716 | 26.7 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,193 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,957 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,643 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,169 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,210 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,351 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,243 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,341 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,778 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,199 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,324 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,843 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,492 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,707 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,199 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,365 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,592 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,841 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,825 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,233 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,275 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,799 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,833 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,086 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,019 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,848 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,903 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,694 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,071 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,718 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,397 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,667 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Neiko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neiko has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neiko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neiko, and how old are they?
An estimated 784 Americans named Neiko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 526 people named Neiko (56 women and girls, 470 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 599 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,690 babies since 1880, Neiko is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 71 babies (37%), again the second 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 Neiko
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 Neiko and names like it
- Compare Neiko and NekoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNeiko peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Neiko since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Neiko.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Neiko alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.