Neka
Neka was last recorded in 2011, when 6 babies were given it; 155 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Neka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,215, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1980, the peak
Neka peaked in 1980, when 12 girls were given it, #5,793 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #16,215 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,241 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,379 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,032 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,265 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,997 | 4.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,222 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,459 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,223 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,824 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 8 | #7,811 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,976 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,733 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,793 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,033 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,418 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,341 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,855 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,928 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,382 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,093 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Neka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neka, and how old are they?
An estimated 149 Americans named Neka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 36 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 294 people named Neka (278 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 151 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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).
How common is the spelling Neka?
Neka is a less common spelling of Nneka: SSA has recorded 155 Neka and 1,178 Nneka since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,296 babies since 1880, Neka is the fifth most given (4.7% of them).
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 Neka
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 Neka and names like it
- Compare Neka and NnekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNeka peaked in 1980.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Neka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Neka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.