Neta
Neta was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 3,226 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Neta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,990, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
82 babies in 1920, the peak
Neta peaked in 1920, when 82 girls were given it, #803 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,990 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,808 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,408 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,693 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,469 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,223 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,094 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,340 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,405 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,406 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 7 | #13,426 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,824 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,243 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,140 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,421 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,600 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,883 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,835 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,900 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,047 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,827 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,106 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,158 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,867 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,492 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,731 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,470 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,593 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,245 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,810 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,699 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,442 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,150 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 47 | #1,582 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,753 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,683 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 47 | #1,477 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,727 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,498 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,723 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,616 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 44 | #1,401 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 50 | #1,305 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,477 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 60 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 51 | #1,110 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 43 | #1,218 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 62 | #1,014 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 74 | #915 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 47 | #1,081 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 50 | #1,018 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 44 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 48 | #1,041 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 39 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 46 | #1,030 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 53 | #958 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 55 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 57 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 52 | #987 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 46 | #1,037 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 50 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 55 | #973 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 54 | #1,024 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 52 | #1,070 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 46 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 52 | #1,060 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 58 | #1,012 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 64 | #919 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 67 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 57 | #999 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 82 | #803 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 54 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 60 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 54 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 53 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 57 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 52 | #815 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 30 | #996 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 21 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 24 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 21 | #960 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 21 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 21 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 19 | #892 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 23 | #772 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 29 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1904 | 31 | #622 | 0.11 |
| 1903 | 23 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1902 | 15 | #929 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 16 | #847 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 26 | #719 | 0.09 |
| 1899 | 15 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 30 | #593 | 0.12 |
| 1897 | 26 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1896 | 23 | #666 | 0.10 |
| 1895 | 21 | #697 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 23 | #620 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 21 | #641 | 0.10 |
| 1892 | 20 | #658 | 0.09 |
| 1891 | 19 | #622 | 0.10 |
| 1890 | 18 | #637 | 0.09 |
| 1889 | 16 | #653 | 0.09 |
| 1888 | 11 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 9 | #833 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 15 | #568 | 0.11 |
| 1884 | 9 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 7 | #799 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 5 | #912 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Neta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 109 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neta, and how old are they?
An estimated 992 Americans named Neta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 64 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,361 people named Neta (1,338 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,233 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above 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 Neta born?
The states with the most babies named Neta are Texas, Oklahoma and North Carolina, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 419 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Oklahoma | 159 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| North Carolina | 112 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Missouri | 29 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arkansas | 24 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kansas | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Neta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Neta is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 3.1 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 Neta 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,339 babies since 1880, Neta is the most given (60% 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 Neta
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 Neta and names like it
- Compare Neta and NettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sNeta peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Neta since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Neta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Neta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.