Nereida
Nereida was last recorded in 2024, when 9 babies were given it; 3,703 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,430 Americans named Nereida and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 30 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nereida by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nereida?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,860, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
155 babies in 1981, the peak
Nereida peaked in 1981, when 155 babies were given it (149 girls, #985 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #10,860 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,832 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,927 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,099 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,630 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,400 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,141 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,763 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,908 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,186 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #9,387 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,919 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,371 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,776 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,574 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,664 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,103 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,355 | 18.2 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,124 | 28.4 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,152 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,208 | 26.1 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,945 | 28.5 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,280 | 40.1 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,907 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,198 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,390 | 35.0 |
| 1998 | 75 | #2,001 | 42.4 |
| 1997 | 66 | #2,123 | 37.9 |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,330 | 32.5 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,229 | 34.1 |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,938 | 40.9 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,434 | 28.7 |
| 1992 | 64 | #2,118 | 34.7 |
| 1991 | 70 | #1,983 | 37.3 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,820 | 41.6 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,862 | 38.5 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,141 | 30.3 |
| 1987 | 61 | #1,893 | 35.1 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,854 | 35.6 |
| 1985 | 77 | #1,569 | 44.7 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,746 | 37.4 |
| 1983 | 81 | #1,444 | 48.5 |
| 1982 | 129 | #1,097 | 76.2 |
| 1981 | 149 | #985 | 89.3 |
| 1980 | 53 | #2,003 | 31.9 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,851 | 36.1 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,980 | 32.0 |
| 1977 | 48 | #2,017 | 31.3 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,811 | 35.5 |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,749 | 37.0 |
| 1974 | 57 | #1,639 | 38.8 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,157 | 25.4 |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,015 | 26.3 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,091 | 24.0 |
| 1970 | 60 | #1,592 | 34.3 |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,678 | 30.8 |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,845 | 25.6 |
| 1967 | 48 | #1,653 | 29.1 |
| 1966 | 54 | #1,524 | 31.9 |
| 1965 | 53 | #1,540 | 30.0 |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,721 | 24.3 |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,617 | 25.9 |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,371 | 33.6 |
| 1961 | 73 | #1,298 | 36.2 |
| 1960 | 51 | #1,573 | 25.2 |
| 1959 | 71 | #1,275 | 35.1 |
| 1958 | 62 | #1,344 | 30.8 |
| 1957 | 77 | #1,206 | 37.7 |
| 1956 | 68 | #1,265 | 33.9 |
| 1955 | 67 | #1,240 | 34.3 |
| 1954 | 57 | #1,327 | 29.4 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,857 | 15.9 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,768 | 17.3 |
| 1951 | 25 | #2,004 | 13.9 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,230 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,691 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,087 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,386 | 6.2 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,169 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,881 | 4.1 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,680 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nereida a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nereida has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 81 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nereida: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nereida, and how old are they?
3,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 3,703 Americans ever recorded as Nereida. The median Nereida alive today is 43 years old; half are between 30 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 6,771 people named Nereida (6,762 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,469 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 675 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 740 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 121 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Nereida born?
The states with the most babies named Nereida are New York, California and Texas, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 845 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| California | 789 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 535 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 269 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 43 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Connecticut | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Nereida is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nereida is most over-represented in New York: since 1936 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nereida with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,909 babies since 1880, Nereida is the most given (75% 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 Nereida
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 Nereida and names like it
- Compare Nereida and NereydaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNereida peaked in 1981.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nereida since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Nereida.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nereida alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.