Neila
Neila was given to 34 girls in 2025, #4,244 among girls’ names; 1,405 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Neila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Neila mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Neila is “a female given name”
Spanish [Term?]
/ˈnej.lɐ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Neila?
#4,244 among girls’ names, 2025
Neila rose from #5,416 in 2015 to #4,244 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 21.2 per million.
47 babies in 2009, the peak
Neila peaked in 2009, when 47 girls were given it, #3,499 among girls’ names. The 34 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,244 | 21.2 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,095 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,717 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,922 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,100 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,466 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,239 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,533 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,456 | 18.5 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,413 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,416 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,583 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,985 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,356 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,049 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,070 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,499 | 25.6 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,330 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,271 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,858 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,943 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,906 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,546 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,835 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,756 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,483 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,082 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,836 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,402 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,423 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,927 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,396 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,854 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,685 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,695 | 5.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,220 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,458 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,975 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,597 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,710 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,575 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,765 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,800 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,251 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,765 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,057 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,078 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,425 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,451 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,376 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,190 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,824 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,201 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,686 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,525 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,643 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,297 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,841 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,379 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,456 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,679 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,053 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,911 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,191 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,624 | 9.8 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,639 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,613 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,495 | 10.3 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,223 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,184 | 12.4 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,051 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,507 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,957 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,233 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,265 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,565 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,317 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 19 | #2,008 | 14.3 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,804 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,507 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,792 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,073 | 14.0 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,084 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,875 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,536 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,811 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,652 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,528 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,327 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,902 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,408 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,603 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,063 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,381 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,656 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,492 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,286 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,645 | 5.3 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,135 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Neila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neila, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 1,405 Americans ever recorded as Neila. The median Neila alive today is 20 years old; half are between 11 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 1,336 people named Neila (1,336 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,081 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 61 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 209 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 111 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 73 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 367 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 352 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 26,042 babies since 1880, Neila is the sixth most given (5.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 405 babies (8.4%), the fifth 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 Neila
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1900-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Darlyn | 2,097 | |
| Glory | 5,000 | |
| Evangelina | 10,319 | |
| Maylene | 1,198 | |
| Maris | 2,903 |
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 Neila and names like it
- Compare Neila and NellyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Neila since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Neila: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Neila.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Neila alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.