Neve
Neve was given to 51 girls in 2025, #3,156 among girls’ names; 1,608 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Neve and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neve by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Neve?
#3,156 among girls’ names, 2025
Neve fell from #2,706 in 2015 to #3,156 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.0 to 31.7 per million.
95 babies in 2010, the peak
Neve peaked in 2010, when 95 girls were given it, #2,089 among girls’ names. The 51 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,156 | 31.7 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,373 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,667 | 41.1 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,518 | 27.4 |
| 2021 | 60 | #2,838 | 36.6 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,771 | 37.1 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,420 | 44.1 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,579 | 40.0 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,534 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,894 | 33.3 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,706 | 37.0 |
| 2014 | 75 | #2,440 | 42.0 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,700 | 37.0 |
| 2012 | 73 | #2,510 | 41.5 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,892 | 34.1 |
| 2010 | 95 | #2,089 | 53.4 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,879 | 33.2 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,375 | 43.4 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,957 | 31.7 |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,594 | 36.8 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,814 | 31.9 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,425 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,272 | 24.6 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,037 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,649 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,368 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,536 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,272 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,869 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,253 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Neve a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neve has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Neve: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neve, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,608 Americans ever recorded as Neve. The median Neve alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,348 people named Neve (1,316 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,285 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 812 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 775 |
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 Neve born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 6 | #1,363 | 0.9× |
| California | 5 | #3,407 | 0.8× |
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 Neve 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 128,147 babies since 1880, Neve is the fourth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 2,103 babies (2.4%), 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 Neve
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 Neve and names like it
- Compare Neve and NevaehBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNeve peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Neve since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Neve.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Neve alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.