Meaning not yet researched.
Neha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #969 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #969 in 2000; #5,662 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Neha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,662 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #969.
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Neha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 girls in 2025. Peak: #969 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 223 (2004).
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Neha, making it the 5,662nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 252 places from #5,914 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 21 girls named Neha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #969, reached in 2000. The most girls given the name in a single year was 223, in 2004. For comparison, it was #3,463 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Neha in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 9 babies. In all, 4,351 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,890 babies named Neha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 275 US girls were named Neha; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nia (25,432 babies since 1880), Nya (6,006 babies since 1880), Niya (4,790 babies since 1880) and Neo (3,123 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nghi 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: Nghi (27).
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 Neha 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 | 22 | #5,662 | — | — |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,914 | — | — |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,719 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,152 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,103 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,443 | — | — |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,867 | — | — |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,057 | — | — |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,974 | — | — |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,981 | — | — |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,463 | — | — |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 2012 | 90 | #2,128 | — | — |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 2009 | 158 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 2008 | 143 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 2007 | 166 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 2006 | 173 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 2005 | 195 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 2004 | 223 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 2003 | 199 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 2002 | 215 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2001 | 199 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 2000 | 219 | #969 | — | — |
| 1999 | 162 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1998 | 124 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1997 | 95 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 1995 | 91 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1994 | 92 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1991 | 61 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 1990 | 68 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,512 | — | — |
| 1988 | 60 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,285 | — | — |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,150 | — | — |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,634 | — | — |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,701 | — | — |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,124 | — | — |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,279 | — | — |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,747 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,497 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,020 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,894 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,333 | — | — |
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).