Sneha
Sneha was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,938 among girls’ names; 1,439 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Sneha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sneha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sneha?
#16,938 among girls’ names, 2025
Sneha fell from #6,428 in 2015 to #16,938 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 3.1 per million.
94 babies in 2002, the peak
Sneha peaked in 2002, when 94 girls were given it, #1,892 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,938 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,012 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,016 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,347 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,656 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,103 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,276 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,867 | 10.2 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,428 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,150 | 15.1 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 22 | #5,988 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,093 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,558 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,740 | 23.6 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,557 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,704 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,989 | 31.2 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,667 | 35.8 |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,273 | 43.3 |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,364 | 39.8 |
| 2003 | 85 | #2,087 | 46.5 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,892 | 52.3 |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,088 | 44.4 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,473 | 34.1 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,668 | 29.9 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,723 | 28.3 |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,654 | 27.6 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,809 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,570 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,291 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,795 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,948 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,185 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 19 | #5,032 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,508 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,036 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,839 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,406 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,826 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,180 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,212 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,118 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,222 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,947 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,030 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,866 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,806 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,999 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,390 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sneha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sneha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sneha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sneha, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,439 Americans ever recorded as Sneha. The median Sneha alive today is 24 years old; half are between 19 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 4,172 people named Sneha (4,155 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,394 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 45 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 296 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 922 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 155 |
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 Sneha born?
The states with the most babies named Sneha are California, New Jersey and Texas, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 135 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 100 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Texas | 66 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 44 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 43 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 14 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Sneha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sneha is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1975 it was given 2.4 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 Sneha 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,509 babies since 1880, Sneha is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 73 babies (6.8%), 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 Sneha
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 Sneha and names like it
- Compare Sneha and SenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSneha peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sneha since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Sneha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sneha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.