Girls' name · since 2002
Neleah
Neleah has 39 recorded births since 2002 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2002 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #37,954 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 39
- born since 2002
- 2000s
- peak decade
Neleah is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 39 have been recorded since 2002.
Neleah has 39 recorded births among girls since 2002, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2002 to 2006.
- #37,954 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 39 born since 2002
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Neleah ranks #37,954 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 39 born since 2002, peaking in the 2000s.
- #37,954 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 39
- born since 2002
- 2000s
- peak decade
Neleah's 39 recorded births place it above 47.4% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Neleah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Neleah's SSA record in two at 2004 and the more recent half accounts for 28% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 72%, consistent with a name more common in the past than in recent years. Its calmest year was 2006, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2002 peak of 22, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Neleah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2002–2006
- Peak year (2002)
- 22
- Annual births at peak, across 5 years of records
Neleah by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (39 births, 100% of the file).
2000s was Neleah's strongest decade.
39 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Neleah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
39 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 39 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Neleah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2002)
Similar record span (~4 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2002–2006 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Neleah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.