Nevah
Nevah was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,632 among girls’ names; 273 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nevah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nevah?
#11,632 among girls’ names, 2025
Nevah fell from #8,802 in 2015 to #11,632 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 5.0 per million.
22 babies in 2007, the peak
Nevah peaked in 2007, when 22 girls were given it, #6,260 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,632 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,788 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,055 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,335 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,858 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,076 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,350 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,764 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,532 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,802 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,721 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,455 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,511 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,777 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,121 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,341 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,298 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,260 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,408 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,057 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,473 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,068 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nevah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nevah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nevah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nevah, and how old are they?
An estimated 271 Americans named Nevah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 541 people named Nevah (521 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 233 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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).
How common is the spelling Nevah?
Nevah is a less common spelling of Neva: SSA has recorded 273 Nevah and 21,226 Neva since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 129,359 babies since 1880, Nevah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 2,116 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Nevah
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 Nevah and names like it
- Compare Nevah and NevaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNevah peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nevah since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Nevah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nevah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.