Girls' name · since 2024
Nephele
Since 2024, U.S. Social Security records show 13 babies named Nephele, peaking in 2025. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #51,168 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #13,119 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 13
- born since 2024
- 2020s
- peak decade
13 babies have been named Nephele since 2024, making it today's #13119 girls' name.
Nephele has 13 recorded births among girls since 2024, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #13119 as of the latest data, more common than 24% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2024 to 2025.
- #51,168 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #13,119 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 13 born since 2024
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nephele ranks #51,168 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,119 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 13 born since 2024, peaking in the 2020s.
- #51,168 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #13,119 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 13
- born since 2024
- 2020s
- peak decade
Nephele's 13 recorded births place it above 28.96% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Nephele compares
13 5th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Nephele's all-time total is 97% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Nephele | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 13 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Nephele's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Nephele's full recorded timeline at 2025, 54% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 46% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2024, with just 6 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Nephele popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 2 years of records
Nephele by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (13 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Nephele's strongest decade.
13 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Nephele births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
13 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 13 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Nephele: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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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, 2024–2025 (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 Nephele 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.