Neiva
Neiva was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,430 among girls’ names; 130 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 Neiva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Neiva?
#14,430 among girls’ names, 2025
Neiva fell from #12,679 in 2015 to #14,430 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.7 per million.
27 babies in 1988, the peak
Neiva peaked in 1988, when 27 girls were given it, #3,545 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,430 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,914 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,755 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,821 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,137 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,685 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,679 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,701 | 5.1 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,628 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,548 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #16,818 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,056 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,597 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,696 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,039 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,545 | 15.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Neiva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neiva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neiva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neiva, and how old are they?
An estimated 128 Americans named Neiva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 10 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 259 people named Neiva (258 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 108 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.
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 23,934 babies since 1880, Neiva is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 131 babies (4.6%), 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 Neiva
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1980-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Vanna | 2,068 |
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 Neiva and names like it
- Compare Neiva and NevaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNeiva peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Neiva since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Neiva.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Neiva alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.