In 2025, 39 US girls were named Nevada, making it the 3,819th most common girls’ name of the year, up 198 places from #4,017 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 37 girls named Nevada in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #441, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 60, in 2003. For comparison, it was #5,255 in 2015 and #2,509 in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Nevada, making it the 6,703rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 904 places from #7,607 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 11 boys named Nevada in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,539, reached in 1995. The most boys given the name in a single year was 30, in 1997. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nevada in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 3,913 US babies have been given the name, 82% of them girls and 18% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 570 babies named Nevada.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 336 US girls were named Nevada; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,212 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.