In 2025, 53 US boys were named Neymar, making it the 2,527th most common boys’ name of the year, down 223 places from #2,304 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 62 boys named Neymar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #551, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 499. For comparison, it was #795 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Neymar in 16 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2010 with 19 babies. In all, 2,902 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,431 babies named Neymar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,180 US boys were named Neymar; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 245. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,228 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Neymar ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,690 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Nymir, Neimar and Nimar are summarised on this page.