Nereo — boys' name

What the Data Says About Nereo

The Social Security Administration has registered 21 babies named Nereo between 1987 and 2002, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nereo currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 6 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nereo performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Nereo shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nereo in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nereo 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 21 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.