Meaning not yet researched.
Nereida: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #985 in 1981.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #985 in 1981. No US babies were recorded with the name Nereida in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #985 in 1981.
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Nereida: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #985 in 1981 · most girls in one year: 149 (1981).
Fewer than five US girls were named Nereida in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #985, reached in 1981. That year also had the most girls given the name: 149. For comparison, it was #7,189 in 2015 and #2,231 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nereida in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1936 with 5 babies. In all, 3,703 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 805 babies named Nereida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 80 US girls were named Nereida; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 12.
Rarer spellings such as Nereyda and Nerida 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Catalan. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nereyda (1,206), Nerida (47).
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 Nereida 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #10,865 | — | — |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,837 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,932 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,104 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,635 | — | — |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,405 | — | — |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,146 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,767 | — | — |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,912 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,189 | — | — |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,392 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,924 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,375 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,779 | — | — |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,575 | — | — |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,666 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,105 | — | — |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,356 | — | — |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,125 | — | — |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,156 | — | — |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,212 | — | — |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,948 | — | — |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,283 | — | — |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,393 | — | — |
| 1998 | 75 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 1997 | 66 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,439 | — | — |
| 1992 | 64 | #2,123 | — | — |
| 1991 | 70 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1987 | 61 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 1985 | 77 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1983 | 81 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1982 | 129 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1981 | 149 | #985 | 6 | #6,016 |
| 1980 | 53 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1977 | 48 | #2,017 | — | — |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,811 | — | — |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1974 | 57 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 1970 | 60 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 1967 | 48 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1966 | 54 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 1965 | 53 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1961 | 73 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1960 | 51 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 1959 | 71 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1958 | 62 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1957 | 77 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1956 | 68 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1955 | 67 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1954 | 57 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1951 | 25 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,231 | — | — |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,088 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,388 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,171 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,883 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,682 | — | — |
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).