Nevaeh
Nevaeh was given to 1,828 girls in 2025, #165 among girls’ names; 98,924 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 98,100 Americans named Nevaeh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nevaeh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nevaeh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nevaeh is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
From heaven, spelled backwards. Popular since 2000 when the rock singer Sonny Sandoval gave the name to his baby daughter.
/nəˈveɪə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nevaeh?
#165 among girls’ names, 2025
Nevaeh fell from #70 in 2015 to #165 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 2.3 to 1.1 per 1,000.
6,856 babies in 2007, the peak
Nevaeh peaked in 2007, when 6,856 babies were given it (6,818 girls, #31 among girls’ names). The 1,828 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,828 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 2,200 | #133 | 1.4 |
| 2023 | 2,342 | #117 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 2,808 | #96 | 1.7 |
| 2021 | 3,071 | #86 | 1.9 |
| 2020 | 3,132 | #83 | 1.9 |
| 2019 | 3,127 | #89 | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 3,410 | #83 | 2.0 |
| 2017 | 3,623 | #74 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 3,825 | #73 | 2.2 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,028 | #70 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 4,264 | #63 | 2.4 |
| 2013 | 4,786 | #46 | 2.7 |
| 2012 | 5,412 | #39 | 3.1 |
| 2011 | 6,127 | #33 | 3.5 |
| 2010 | 6,446 | #25 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 6,126 | #34 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 6,112 | #34 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 6,818 | #31 | 3.5 |
| 2006 | 5,956 | #43 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 4,560 | #69 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 3,181 | #104 | 1.7 |
| 2003 | 2,300 | #145 | 1.3 |
| 2002 | 1,699 | #189 | 0.95 |
| 2001 | 1,199 | #266 | 0.67 |
| 2000 | 99 | #1,768 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,083 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,868 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,407 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nevaeh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nevaeh has been given almost only to girls: 427 boys in 29 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nevaeh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nevaeh, and how old are they?
98,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 98,924 Americans ever recorded as Nevaeh. The median Nevaeh alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 60,298 people named Nevaeh (59,981 women and girls, 317 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 83,708 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 55,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 42,200 |
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 Nevaeh born?
The states with the most babies named Nevaeh are California, Texas and Florida, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 230 | #132 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 211 | #152 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 113 | #158 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 78 | #128 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 77 | #129 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 68 | #164 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 64 | #113 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 60 | #186 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 59 | #170 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 57 | #148 | 1.3× |
Where Nevaeh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nevaeh is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1997 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 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 Nevaeh 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 129,401 babies since 1880, Nevaeh is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,828 of their 2,114 babies (86%), 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 Nevaeh
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 Nevaeh and names like it
- Compare Nevaeh and NevaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNevaeh peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nevaeh since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Nevaeh: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Nevaeh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nevaeh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.