Meaning not yet researched.
Nevaeh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,828 in 2025. Its best rank was #25 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #25 in 2010; #165 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nevaeh in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#165 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #25.
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Nevaeh: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,828 girls in 2025. Peak: #25 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 6,818 (2007).
In 2025, 1,828 US girls were named Nevaeh, making it the 165th most common girls’ name of the year, down 32 places from #133 in 2024. That is 372 fewer than the 2,200 girls named Nevaeh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #25, reached in 2010. The most girls given the name in a single year was 6,818, in 2007. For comparison, it was #70 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nevaeh in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 98,924 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 45,124 babies named Nevaeh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 29,366 US girls were named Nevaeh; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,825. In 2025 that was about 1 in 879 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nevaeh ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #59 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Neva (21,226 babies since 1880) and Nevaeha (1,070 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nevayah, Nevaya and Nevah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nevayah (424), Nevaya (315), Nevah (273), Nevae (108), Nivaeh (25), Nevaiah (24), Neavah (8), Nyvaeh (8), Nevaha (6), Nevaeah (5), Nevaehia (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 Nevaeh 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 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 21 | #59 | #18 |
| Mississippi | 31 | #62 | #55 |
| Louisiana | 46 | #78 | #40 |
| Alabama | 48 | #87 | #35 |
| Hawaii | 9 | #89 | #103 |
| Arkansas | 26 | #109 | #31 |
| Virginia | 64 | #113 | #99 |
| Nevada | 20 | #116 | #59 |
| North Carolina | 78 | #128 | #59 |
| New Mexico | 12 | #128 | #19 |
| Georgia | 77 | #129 | #44 |
| Tennessee | 57 | #130 | #45 |
| Kentucky | 34 | #132 | #44 |
| California | 230 | #132 | #92 |
| South Carolina | 33 | #136 | #41 |
| Arizona | 46 | #140 | #50 |
| Michigan | 57 | #148 | #50 |
| Iowa | 22 | #149 | #63 |
| Texas | 211 | #152 | #73 |
| Florida | 113 | #158 | #53 |
| Alaska | 5 | #160 | #57 |
| Pennsylvania | 68 | #164 | #76 |
| Maryland | 31 | #165 | #94 |
| Indiana | 42 | #166 | #54 |
| Illinois | 59 | #170 | #86 |
| Oklahoma | 22 | #182 | #36 |
| Ohio | 60 | #186 | #59 |
| Missouri | 33 | #190 | #39 |
| Colorado | 31 | #198 | #104 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #226 | #122 |
| Oregon | 16 | #238 | #106 |
| Washington | 28 | #261 | #94 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #262 | #80 |
| Connecticut | 12 | #277 | #225 |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #291 | #97 |
| New York | 51 | #331 | #139 |
| Minnesota | 17 | #337 | #115 |
| Idaho | 7 | #339 | #91 |
| New Jersey | 24 | #346 | #128 |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #414 | #154 |
| Utah | 10 | #432 | #149 |
| Kansas | 7 | #484 | #87 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,828 | #165 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,200 | #133 | 5 | #13,652 |
| 2023 | 2,342 | #117 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,808 | #96 | 9 | #8,788 |
| 2021 | 3,071 | #86 | 6 | #11,729 |
| 2020 | 3,132 | #83 | 7 | #10,276 |
| 2019 | 3,127 | #89 | — | — |
| 2018 | 3,410 | #83 | — | — |
| 2017 | 3,623 | #74 | 5 | #13,676 |
| 2016 | 3,825 | #73 | 6 | #11,732 |
| 2015 | 4,028 | #70 | 9 | #8,515 |
| 2014 | 4,264 | #63 | 6 | #11,711 |
| 2013 | 4,786 | #46 | 16 | #5,566 |
| 2012 | 5,412 | #39 | — | — |
| 2011 | 6,127 | #33 | 18 | #5,135 |
| 2010 | 6,446 | #25 | 16 | #5,661 |
| 2009 | 6,126 | #34 | 27 | #3,890 |
| 2008 | 6,112 | #34 | 36 | #3,203 |
| 2007 | 6,818 | #31 | 38 | #3,067 |
| 2006 | 5,956 | #43 | 45 | #2,646 |
| 2005 | 4,560 | #69 | 56 | #2,176 |
| 2004 | 3,181 | #104 | 35 | #2,940 |
| 2003 | 2,300 | #145 | 31 | #3,092 |
| 2002 | 1,699 | #189 | 29 | #3,163 |
| 2001 | 1,199 | #266 | 27 | #3,296 |
| 2000 | 99 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,090 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,875 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,413 | — | — |
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).