Nereyda
Nereyda was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,717 among girls’ names; 1,206 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Nereyda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nereyda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nereyda?
#8,717 among girls’ names, 2025
Nereyda rose from #9,958 in 2015 to #8,717 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 7.5 per million.
51 babies in 1981, the peak
Nereyda peaked in 1981, when 51 girls were given it, #2,048 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,717 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,785 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,897 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,489 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,845 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,825 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,074 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,735 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,530 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,958 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #8,823 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,448 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,030 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,211 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,180 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,038 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,847 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,635 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,764 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,211 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,141 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,385 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,352 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,409 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,046 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,859 | 17.5 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,470 | 19.8 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,597 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,541 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,060 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,971 | 22.4 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,740 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,899 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,131 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,485 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,612 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,264 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,594 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,428 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,379 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,585 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,886 | 18.0 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,207 | 27.2 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,048 | 30.6 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,672 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,163 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,252 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,194 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,897 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,513 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,636 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,516 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,378 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,464 | 7.8 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,815 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,824 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nereyda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nereyda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nereyda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nereyda, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,206 Americans ever recorded as Nereyda. The median Nereyda alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 2,706 people named Nereyda (2,701 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,130 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 127 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 518 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 408 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 124 |
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 Nereyda born?
The states with the most babies named Nereyda are California, Texas and Arizona, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 425 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Texas | 260 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Arizona | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Nereyda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nereyda is most over-represented in California: since 1968 it was given 2.7 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 Nereyda 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, Nereyda is the second most given (25% 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 Nereyda
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 Nereyda and names like it
- Compare Nereyda and NereidaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNereyda peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nereyda since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Nereyda.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nereyda alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.