Meaning not yet researched.
Neo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 204 in 2025. Its best rank was #949 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #949 in 2022; #1,066 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Neo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,066 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #949.
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Neo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 204 boys in 2025. Peak: #949 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 240 (2022).
In 2025, 204 US boys were named Neo, making it the 1,066th most common boys’ name of the year, down 102 places from #964 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 236 boys named Neo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #949, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 240. For comparison, it was #1,840 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Neo in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 3,123 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,319 babies named Neo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,766 US boys were named Neo; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 240. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,373 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Neo ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #720 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nia (25,432 babies since 1880), Nya (6,006 babies since 1880) and Neha (4,351 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.
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 Neo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 22 | #720 | #1,076 |
| California | 37 | #728 | #1,304 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #772 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #778 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #780 | — |
| New York | 18 | #790 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #880 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #986 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #991 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,104 | #908 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,110 | — |
| Texas | 17 | #1,243 | #2,305 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,420 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 204 | #1,066 |
| 2024 | — | — | 236 | #964 |
| 2023 | — | — | 226 | #975 |
| 2022 | — | — | 240 | #949 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,762 | 227 | #980 |
| 2020 | — | — | 180 | #1,101 |
| 2019 | — | — | 124 | #1,417 |
| 2018 | — | — | 145 | #1,274 |
| 2017 | — | — | 84 | #1,807 |
| 2016 | — | — | 100 | #1,617 |
| 2015 | — | — | 81 | #1,840 |
| 2014 | — | — | 93 | #1,663 |
| 2013 | — | — | 60 | #2,193 |
| 2012 | — | — | 69 | #2,026 |
| 2011 | — | — | 78 | #1,832 |
| 2010 | — | — | 62 | #2,165 |
| 2009 | — | — | 78 | #1,871 |
| 2008 | — | — | 64 | #2,138 |
| 2007 | — | — | 69 | #2,028 |
| 2006 | — | — | 103 | #1,486 |
| 2005 | — | — | 80 | #1,687 |
| 2004 | — | — | 108 | #1,352 |
| 2003 | — | — | 84 | #1,535 |
| 2002 | — | — | 66 | #1,760 |
| 2001 | — | — | 111 | #1,213 |
| 2000 | — | — | 116 | #1,185 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,339 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,085 |
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).