Meaning not yet researched.
Neva: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #212 in 1898.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #212 in 1898; #3,333 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Neva in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,333 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1898, at #212.
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Neva: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 girls in 2025. Peak: #212 in 1898 · most girls in one year: 558 (1920).
In 2025, 47 US girls were named Neva, making it the 3,333rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 403 places from #3,736 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 41 girls named Neva in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #212, reached in 1898. The most girls given the name in a single year was 558, in 1920. For comparison, it was #2,187 in 2015 and #692 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Neva in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 18 babies with the name. In all, 21,226 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 4,294 babies named Neva.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 692 US girls were named Neva; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 96. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,197 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nevaeh (98,924 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Niva, Neeva and Neiva 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: Niva (526), Neeva (305), Neiva (130), Nevia (109), Nyava (83), Nevina (55), Neyva (48), Nieva (24).
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 Neva 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 | 47 | #3,333 | — | — |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,736 | — | — |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,778 | — | — |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,542 | — | — |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 2018 | 91 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 2017 | 96 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 2015 | 87 | #2,187 | — | — |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,340 | — | — |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,258 | — | — |
| 2011 | 93 | #2,083 | — | — |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,490 | — | — |
| 2009 | 93 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,435 | — | — |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 2006 | 72 | #2,551 | — | — |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,723 | — | — |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,828 | — | — |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,129 | — | — |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,242 | — | — |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,639 | — | — |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,421 | — | — |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,547 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,871 | — | — |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,837 | — | — |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,168 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,627 | — | — |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,486 | — | — |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,557 | — | — |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,513 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,204 | — | — |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,646 | — | — |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,895 | — | — |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,103 | — | — |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,988 | — | — |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,462 | — | — |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 1977 | 50 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 1974 | 68 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 1973 | 69 | #1,427 | — | — |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1970 | 54 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1969 | 64 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1967 | 75 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1966 | 78 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1965 | 79 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1964 | 94 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1963 | 122 | #962 | — | — |
| 1962 | 113 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1961 | 129 | #953 | — | — |
| 1960 | 131 | #933 | — | — |
| 1959 | 136 | #893 | — | — |
| 1958 | 141 | #860 | — | — |
| 1957 | 195 | #713 | — | — |
| 1956 | 171 | #744 | — | — |
| 1955 | 180 | #705 | — | — |
| 1954 | 211 | #627 | — | — |
| 1953 | 239 | #568 | — | — |
| 1952 | 182 | #658 | — | — |
| 1951 | 156 | #700 | — | — |
| 1950 | 155 | #692 | — | — |
| 1949 | 160 | #662 | — | — |
| 1948 | 166 | #648 | — | — |
| 1947 | 206 | #594 | — | — |
| 1946 | 164 | #619 | — | — |
| 1945 | 169 | #566 | — | — |
| 1944 | 163 | #575 | — | — |
| 1943 | 165 | #586 | — | — |
| 1942 | 205 | #520 | — | — |
| 1941 | 229 | #458 | — | — |
| 1940 | 203 | #473 | — | — |
| 1939 | 238 | #437 | — | — |
| 1938 | 267 | #412 | — | — |
| 1937 | 281 | #388 | — | — |
| 1936 | 244 | #412 | — | — |
| 1935 | 301 | #366 | — | — |
| 1934 | 294 | #367 | — | — |
| 1933 | 315 | #352 | — | — |
| 1932 | 317 | #357 | — | — |
| 1931 | 368 | #332 | — | — |
| 1930 | 365 | #343 | — | — |
| 1929 | 371 | #336 | — | — |
| 1928 | 354 | #365 | — | — |
| 1927 | 426 | #327 | — | — |
| 1926 | 413 | #325 | — | — |
| 1925 | 389 | #340 | — | — |
| 1924 | 458 | #313 | — | — |
| 1923 | 408 | #322 | — | — |
| 1922 | 454 | #302 | — | — |
| 1921 | 463 | #302 | — | — |
| 1920 | 558 | #276 | — | — |
| 1919 | 414 | #311 | — | — |
| 1918 | 457 | #300 | 6 | #4,036 |
| 1917 | 487 | #279 | — | — |
| 1916 | 449 | #281 | — | — |
| 1915 | 472 | #269 | — | — |
| 1914 | 353 | #277 | — | — |
| 1913 | 289 | #276 | — | — |
| 1912 | 224 | #303 | — | — |
| 1911 | 168 | #306 | — | — |
| 1910 | 141 | #328 | — | — |
| 1909 | 163 | #279 | — | — |
| 1908 | 184 | #259 | — | — |
| 1907 | 137 | #300 | — | — |
| 1906 | 147 | #275 | — | — |
| 1905 | 141 | #279 | — | — |
| 1904 | 138 | #271 | — | — |
| 1903 | 121 | #288 | — | — |
| 1902 | 124 | #282 | — | — |
| 1901 | 120 | #270 | — | — |
| 1900 | 157 | #260 | — | — |
| 1899 | 131 | #242 | — | — |
| 1898 | 183 | #212 | — | — |
| 1897 | 124 | #255 | — | — |
| 1896 | 112 | #272 | — | — |
| 1895 | 122 | #256 | — | — |
| 1894 | 102 | #276 | — | — |
| 1893 | 116 | #246 | — | — |
| 1892 | 87 | #290 | — | — |
| 1891 | 74 | #293 | — | — |
| 1890 | 74 | #288 | — | — |
| 1889 | 61 | #314 | — | — |
| 1888 | 63 | #301 | — | — |
| 1887 | 45 | #321 | — | — |
| 1886 | 49 | #297 | — | — |
| 1885 | 40 | #323 | — | — |
| 1884 | 40 | #312 | — | — |
| 1883 | 22 | #407 | — | — |
| 1882 | 22 | #387 | — | — |
| 1881 | 15 | #442 | — | — |
| 1880 | 18 | #401 | — | — |
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).