Meaning not yet researched.
Neela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,000 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,000 in 2007; #3,332 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Neela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,332 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #2,000.
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Neela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,000 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 103 (2007).
In 2025, 47 US girls were named Neela, making it the 3,332nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 293 places from #3,039 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 54 girls named Neela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,000, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 103. For comparison, it was #2,959 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Neela in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 6 babies. In all, 1,374 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 524 babies named Neela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 450 US girls were named Neela; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,197 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nyla (27,714 babies since 1880), Nila (7,136 babies since 1880) and Nella (4,374 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Finnish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Neela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,332 | — | — |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,039 | — | — |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,565 | — | — |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,582 | — | — |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,069 | — | — |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,484 | — | — |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,122 | — | — |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,335 | — | — |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,092 | — | — |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,959 | — | — |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,102 | — | — |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,115 | — | — |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,830 | — | — |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,668 | — | — |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 2008 | 93 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 2007 | 103 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,622 | — | — |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,353 | — | — |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,676 | — | — |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,909 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,228 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,895 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,282 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,596 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,053 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,511 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,959 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,808 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,915 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,976 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,663 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,890 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,537 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,875 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,855 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,379 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,184 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,928 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).