Meaning not yet researched.
Nery: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #902 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #902 in 2007; #4,215 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nery in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,215 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #902.
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Nery: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 boys in 2025. Peak: #902 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 222 (2007).
In 2025, 25 US boys were named Nery, making it the 4,215th most common boys’ name of the year, down 777 places from #3,438 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 34 boys named Nery in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #902, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 222. For comparison, it was #4,044 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Nery in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #4,662, reached in 1984. The most girls given the name in a single year was 17, in 1991. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nery in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 1,850 US babies have been given the name, 16% of them girls and 84% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 761 babies named Nery.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 256 US boys were named Nery; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Nyeri are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nyeri (5).
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 Nery 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 | — | — | 25 | #4,215 |
| 2024 | — | — | 34 | #3,438 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,924 | 33 | #3,533 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,199 | 28 | #3,962 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,992 | 21 | #4,729 |
| 2020 | — | — | 16 | #5,626 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,965 |
| 2018 | — | — | 29 | #3,765 |
| 2017 | — | — | 21 | #4,694 |
| 2016 | — | — | 22 | #4,581 |
| 2015 | — | — | 26 | #4,044 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,992 | 35 | #3,197 |
| 2013 | — | — | 47 | #2,586 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,323 | 46 | #2,665 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,229 | 63 | #2,121 |
| 2010 | — | — | 74 | #1,922 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,264 | 136 | #1,295 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,892 | 150 | #1,184 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,625 | 222 | #902 |
| 2006 | — | — | 29 | #3,582 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,888 | 22 | #4,149 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,361 | 39 | #2,730 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,075 | 25 | #3,598 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,237 | 15 | #5,070 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,899 | 25 | #3,481 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,495 | 22 | #3,720 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,089 | 22 | #3,554 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,414 | 20 | #3,669 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,723 | 23 | #3,237 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,346 | 25 | #2,999 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,521 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,984 | 27 | #2,737 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,269 | 25 | #2,847 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,274 | 9 | #5,996 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,586 | 25 | #2,728 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,877 | 17 | #3,560 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,869 | 18 | #3,291 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,022 | 19 | #2,926 |
| 1987 | — | — | 25 | #2,312 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,211 | 16 | #3,088 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,903 | 12 | #3,735 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,662 | 7 | #5,398 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,439 | 9 | #4,382 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #7,047 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,975 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,445 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,364 | 8 | #4,713 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,097 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,023 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,245 | — | — |
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).