Meaning not yet researched.
Neely: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,377 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,377 in 1974; #4,144 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Neely in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,144 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #1,377.
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Neely: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,377 in 1974 · most girls in one year: 75 (1974).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Neely, making it the 4,144th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,112 places from #5,256 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 25 girls named Neely in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,377, reached in 1974. That year also had the most girls given the name: 75. For comparison, it was #3,964 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Neely in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #964, reached in 1890. The most boys given the name in a single year was 17, in 1919. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Neely in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 2,630 US babies have been given the name, 85% of them girls and 15% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 534 babies named Neely.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 331 US girls were named Neely; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nelly (7,871 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nyeli and Neyeli are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nyeli (355), Neyeli (6).
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 Neely 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 | 35 | #4,144 | — | — |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,256 | — | — |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,534 | — | — |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,351 | — | — |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,303 | — | — |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,278 | — | — |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,054 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,318 | — | — |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,050 | — | — |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,568 | — | — |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,964 | — | — |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,304 | — | — |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,078 | — | — |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,395 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,457 | — | — |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,288 | — | — |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,462 | — | — |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,158 | — | — |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,078 | — | — |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,545 | — | — |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,883 | — | — |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,113 | — | — |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,769 | — | — |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,401 | — | — |
| 2000 | 58 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,034 | — | — |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,516 | — | — |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,022 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,875 | — | — |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,647 | 5 | #9,818 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,849 | — | — |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,416 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,855 | — | — |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,190 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,751 | — | — |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,605 | — | — |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,953 | — | — |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,590 | 6 | #6,280 |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,715 | — | — |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,508 | — | — |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,601 | — | — |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,371 | — | — |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,265 | — | — |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,701 | 5 | #6,039 |
| 1974 | 75 | #1,377 | 7 | #4,480 |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,000 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,733 | — | — |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,175 | 5 | #5,222 |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,447 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,393 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,341 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,371 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,123 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,219 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,371 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,618 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,218 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,591 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,733 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,882 | 8 | #3,026 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,417 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,918 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,893 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,880 | 5 | #3,855 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #3,081 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,877 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,876 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,048 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,489 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,651 |
| 1931 | — | — | 11 | #2,429 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,059 | 9 | #2,940 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,089 | 9 | #2,905 |
| 1928 | — | — | 13 | #2,353 |
| 1927 | — | — | 12 | #2,484 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #3,063 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,321 |
| 1924 | — | — | 10 | #2,958 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,813 | 9 | #3,102 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,766 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,467 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,404 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,646 | 17 | #1,944 |
| 1918 | — | — | 11 | #2,654 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,847 |
| 1916 | — | — | 9 | #2,866 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,763 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,093 | 7 | #2,825 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,119 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,467 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,774 |
| 1909 | — | — | 7 | #1,233 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,319 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,439 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #964 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,423 | — | — |
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).