Nerea
Nerea was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,288 among girls’ names; 126 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nerea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nerea mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Nerea is “a female given name”
/neˈɾea/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nerea?
#9,288 among girls’ names, 2025
Nerea rose from #9,957 in 2015 to #9,288 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 6.8 per million.
14 babies in 2022, the peak
Nerea peaked in 2022, when 14 girls were given it, #7,924 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,288 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,080 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,121 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,924 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,629 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,187 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,407 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,949 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,957 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,984 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #16,313 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,893 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,392 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,787 | 3.8 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,880 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,137 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nerea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nerea 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 Nerea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nerea, and how old are they?
An estimated 125 Americans named Nerea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 286 people named Nerea (285 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 79 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 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 4,548 babies since 1880, Nerea is the fifth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 396 babies (2.8%), the third 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 Nerea
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 Nerea and names like it
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- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Nerea: every such name, by how often it is given.
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