Neymar
Neymar was given to 53 boys in 2025, #2,527 among boys’ names; 2,902 Americans have been recorded with it since 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,880 Americans named Neymar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 8 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Neymar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Neymar mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Neymar is “a male given name from Portuguese”
Borrowed from Portuguese Neymar in the 2010s after the Brazilian footballer Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior.
/neiˈmaɾ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Neymar?
#2,527 among boys’ names, 2025
Neymar fell from #795 in 2015 to #2,527 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.15 to 0.03 per 1,000.
504 babies in 2014, the peak
Neymar peaked in 2014, when 504 babies were given it (499 boys, #551 among boys’ names). The 53 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #2,527 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,304 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 87 | #1,844 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 80 | #1,944 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 98 | #1,682 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 91 | #1,712 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 96 | #1,672 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 169 | #1,140 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 199 | #1,019 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 245 | #891 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 294 | #795 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 499 | #551 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 377 | #649 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 338 | #704 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 190 | #1,015 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,971 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Neymar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Neymar has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 16 years of records.
Girls and boys named Neymar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Neymar, and how old are they?
2,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,902 Americans ever recorded as Neymar. The median Neymar alive today is 11 years old; half are between 8 and 13.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 542 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,340 |
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.
Where are babies named Neymar born?
The states with the most babies named Neymar are Texas, New York and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,226 | 1.1× |
| New York | 6 | #1,690 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,016 | 1.2× |
Where Neymar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Neymar is most over-represented in California: since 2010 it was given 1.3 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 Neymar 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,957 babies since 1880, Neymar is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 53 babies (100%), 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 Neymar
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 Neymar and names like it
- Compare Neymar and NeimarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNeymar peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Neymar since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Neymar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Neymar.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Neymar alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.