Meaning not yet researched.
Neriah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 356 in 2025. Its best rank was #762 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 97% of babies named Neriah in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#762 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Neriah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 356 girls in 2025. Peak: #762 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 356 (2025).
In 2025, 356 US girls were named Neriah, making it the 762nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 65 places from #827 in 2024. That is 24 more than the 332 girls named Neriah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #762, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 356. For comparison, it was #948 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Neriah in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 9 babies. In all, 3,748 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,773 babies named Neriah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,943 US girls were named Neriah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 356. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,515 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Neriah ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #429 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Neri, Neriyah and Nyriah are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Neri (878), Neriyah (344), Nyriah (179), Nerea (126), Neriya (74), Neria (68), Neariah (37), Niria (32), Nerriah (12), Niriah (11), Nyria (10), Niriyah (10), and more.
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 Neriah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 19 | #429 | #1,177 |
| Maryland | 11 | #496 | #620 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #509 | #665 |
| Colorado | 11 | #527 | #853 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #529 | — |
| Arizona | 13 | #540 | #765 |
| Florida | 32 | #568 | #533 |
| Nevada | 5 | #581 | — |
| South Carolina | 8 | #604 | — |
| Texas | 46 | #671 | #761 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #714 | #1,005 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #727 | #835 |
| Georgia | 14 | #740 | #875 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #802 | — |
| California | 35 | #852 | #995 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #910 | #915 |
| Ohio | 10 | #943 | #1,041 |
| Illinois | 9 | #986 | #905 |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,031 | #818 |
| New York | 13 | #1,133 | #1,051 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,196 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,397 | #1,200 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 356 | #762 | 12 | #7,072 |
| 2024 | 332 | #827 | 11 | #7,606 |
| 2023 | 258 | #993 | 7 | #10,481 |
| 2022 | 264 | #995 | 12 | #7,120 |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,691 | 5 | #13,496 |
| 2020 | 131 | #1,601 | 5 | #13,486 |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,887 | 7 | #10,488 |
| 2018 | 91 | #2,110 | — | — |
| 2017 | 94 | #2,083 | 6 | #11,775 |
| 2016 | 187 | #1,290 | 6 | #11,728 |
| 2015 | 287 | #948 | 6 | #11,684 |
| 2014 | 289 | #936 | — | — |
| 2013 | 268 | #946 | 10 | #7,929 |
| 2012 | 175 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,972 | 5 | #13,677 |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,332 | 5 | #13,896 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,363 | — | — |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,118 | — | — |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,920 | — | — |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,739 | — | — |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,335 | — | — |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,714 | — | — |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,248 | — | — |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,128 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,718 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,752 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,979 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,162 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,289 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,325 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,368 | — | — |
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).