Nery
Nery was given to 25 boys in 2025, #4,214 among boys’ names; 1,850 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,820 Americans named Nery and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nery by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nery?
#4,214 among boys’ names, 2025
Nery fell from #4,042 in 2015 to #4,214 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 13.6 to 14.6 per million.
233 babies in 2007, the peak
Nery peaked in 2007, when 233 babies were given it (222 boys, #902 among boys’ names). The 25 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 25 | #4,214 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 34 | #3,436 | |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,918 | 33 | #3,531 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,194 | 28 | #3,959 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,987 | 21 | #4,725 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 16 | #5,622 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 27 | #3,962 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 29 | #3,761 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 21 | #4,690 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 22 | #4,580 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 26 | #4,042 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,986 | 35 | #3,195 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 47 | #2,584 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,316 | 46 | #2,664 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,221 | 63 | #2,120 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 74 | #1,921 | |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,260 | 136 | #1,295 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,886 | 150 | #1,184 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,621 | 222 | #902 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 29 | #3,580 | |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,881 | 22 | #4,144 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,355 | 39 | #2,726 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,068 | 25 | #3,593 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,231 | 15 | #5,063 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,892 | 25 | #3,476 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,487 | 22 | #3,714 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,082 | 22 | #3,549 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,408 | 20 | #3,665 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,718 | 23 | #3,232 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,341 | 25 | #2,994 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 19 | #3,515 | |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,978 | 27 | #2,732 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,263 | 25 | #2,841 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,267 | 9 | #5,989 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,580 | 25 | #2,722 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,871 | 17 | #3,554 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,863 | 18 | #3,285 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,017 | 19 | #2,921 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 25 | #2,308 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,206 | 16 | #3,085 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,898 | 12 | #3,732 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,661 | 7 | #5,394 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,435 | 9 | #4,380 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #7,045 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,973 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,444 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,361 | 8 | #4,711 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,095 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,021 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,244 | under 5 |
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 Nery a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,850 Americans recorded as Nery, 16% are girls and 84% boys. In 2025 it went to 25 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nery: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nery, and how old are they?
1,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,850 Americans ever recorded as Nery. The median Nery alive today is 19 years old; half are between 15 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 5,900 people named Nery (2,187 women and girls, 3,713 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,652 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 36 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 355 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 387 |
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 Nery born?
The states with the most babies named Nery are California, Texas and Illinois, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 457 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 167 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 26 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 25 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Nevada | 12 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Nery is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nery is most over-represented in California: since 1961 it was given 1.9 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 Nery 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, Nery is the most given (57% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 59 babies (42%), again the most given.
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 Nery
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 Nery and names like it
- Compare Nery and NeriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNery peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nery since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Nery.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nery alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.