Neko — #3998 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Neko

The Social Security Administration has registered 967 babies named Neko between 1969 and 2024, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Neko currently holds the #3998 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 55 babies received it in a single year. Neko is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 247 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Neko performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 327 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Neko shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 42 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Neko in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Neko in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 967 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.