Neri
Neri is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,630 among girls’ names and #13,324 among boys’, #14,085 among all names counting both); 878 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Neri mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Neri is “a male given name”
From the apheresis of several medieval personal names, such as Raineri, Guarneri or Maineri.
/ˈne.ri/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Neri?
#13,324 among boys’ names, 2025
Neri fell from #6,209 in 2015 to #13,324 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 2.9 per million.
93 babies in 2007, the peak
Neri peaked in 2007, when 93 babies were given it (82 boys, #1,792 among boys’ names). The 13 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,630 | 5 | #13,324 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,786 | 17 | #5,587 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,916 | 10 | #8,079 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,054 | 9 | #8,781 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 10 | #7,981 | |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,066 | 5 | #13,478 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,266 | 9 | #8,670 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,472 | 11 | #7,467 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,360 | 8 | #9,436 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,531 | 16 | #5,703 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #14,076 | 14 | #6,209 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,824 | 15 | #5,905 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 17 | #5,326 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,314 | 18 | #5,190 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,404 | 30 | #3,574 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,543 | 23 | #4,330 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,817 | 53 | #2,436 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,949 | 62 | #2,176 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,620 | 82 | #1,792 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,405 | 18 | #4,993 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 19 | #4,585 | |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,471 | 15 | #5,411 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,067 | 14 | #5,461 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,355 | 17 | #4,639 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,746 | 15 | #5,060 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,823 | 12 | #5,798 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,081 | 11 | #5,922 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 9 | #6,672 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,138 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 7 | #7,552 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 9 | #6,193 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,054 | 12 | #4,905 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 12 | #4,772 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #7,037 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 8 | #6,233 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,623 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,226 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 7 | #5,738 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #6,276 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #7,012 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,434 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,891 | 5 | #7,044 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,961 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #6,039 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 5 | #4,371 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,291 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Neri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 878 Americans recorded as Neri, 26% are girls and 74% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Neri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neri, and how old are they?
An estimated 861 Americans named Neri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,018 people named Neri (818 women and girls, 1,200 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 780 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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).
Where are babies named Neri born?
The states with the most babies named Neri are California, Texas and Illinois, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 150 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 41 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Neri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Neri is most over-represented in California: since 1952 it was given 1.3 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 boys’ 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 Neri 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,254 babies since 1880, Neri is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 59 babies (22%), 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 Neri
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Tiernan | 1,676 |
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 Neri and names like it
- Compare Neri and NeryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNeri peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Neri since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Neri: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Neri.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Neri alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.