Neha
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births
- Peak · girls
- 2000 · 219 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,351since 1969
Neha over time
Rank among girls' names. Neha has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 |
| 2023 | #4,655 | 29 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 |
| 2018 | #4,001 | 36 |
| 2017 | #3,919 | 38 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 |
| 2015 | #3,429 | 46 |
| 2014 | #2,615 | 67 |
| 2013 | #2,236 | 83 |
| 2012 | #2,115 | 90 |
| 2011 | #2,103 | 91 |
| 2010 | #1,830 | 111 |
| 2009 | #1,469 | 158 |
| 2008 | #1,589 | 143 |
| 2007 | #1,424 | 166 |
| 2006 | #1,342 | 173 |
| 2005 | #1,181 | 195 |
| 2004 | #1,038 | 223 |
| 2003 | #1,105 | 199 |
| 2002 | #1,012 | 215 |
| 2001 | #1,066 | 199 |
| 2000 | #966 | 219 |
| 1999 | #1,191 | 162 |
| 1998 | #1,382 | 124 |
| 1997 | #1,656 | 95 |
| 1996 | #1,711 | 88 |
| 1995 | #1,626 | 91 |
| 1994 | #1,634 | 92 |
| 1993 | #1,708 | 87 |
| 1992 | #1,908 | 73 |
| 1991 | #2,163 | 61 |
| 1990 | #1,989 | 68 |
| 1989 | #2,478 | 46 |
| 1988 | #1,986 | 60 |
| 1987 | #1,944 | 58 |
| 1986 | #1,669 | 70 |
| 1985 | #1,948 | 56 |
| 1984 | #2,266 | 43 |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 |
| 1982 | #2,050 | 50 |
| 1981 | #2,119 | 48 |
| 1980 | #2,603 | 36 |
| 1979 | #2,343 | 40 |
| 1978 | #2,572 | 33 |
| 1977 | #2,666 | 31 |
| 1976 | #2,546 | 31 |
| 1975 | #3,052 | 23 |
| 1974 | #3,212 | 21 |
| 1973 | #3,635 | 17 |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Neha! It came in at #5,057, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1971, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Neha is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#571 · 1 in 4,841
- New York#971 · 1 in 9,322
- Illinois#1,286 · 1 in 14,516
- Texas#1,895 · 1 in 25,774
Best ever in a state: #265 in New Jersey, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #571 | 9 | 1 in 4,841 |
| New York | #971 | 12 | 1 in 9,322 |
| Illinois | #1,286 | 5 | 1 in 14,516 |
| Texas | #1,895 | 5 | 1 in 25,774 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Neha
- 245 spots since 2024 (#5,799 → #5,554)
- 240 spots since 2020 (#5,314 → #5,554)
- 2,125 spots since 2015 (#3,429 → #5,554)
- Biggest jump: 225 spots in 2000 (#1,191 → #966)
- Biggest drop: 100 spots in 2001 (#966 → #1,066)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2000 at #966 (219 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2000
- Highest: 1 in 8,234 girls born in 2004 were named Neha (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 73,058 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #966 in 2000, was only 1 in 8,292 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.4% of all girls named Neha (1,890) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 9 | #5,057 (1969) | #5,057 |
| 1970s | 225 | #2,343 (1979) | #3,881 |
| 1980s | 523 | #1,669 (1986) | #2,092 |
| 1990s | 941 | #1,191 (1999) | #1,697 |
| 2000s | 1,890 | #966 (2000) | #1,219 |
| 2010s | 628 | #1,830 (2010) | #3,094 |
| 2020s | 135 | #4,655 (2023) | #5,544 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Neha in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 29,976 of them was named Neha, which outranked 85.3% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,918Tameika59
- #1,918Tawanda59
- #1,918Tyeisha59
- #1,944Neha58
- #1,944Antonio58
- #1,944Aryn58
- #1,944Autum58
- #1,962Ashia57
- #1,962Debora57
- #1,962Derek57
Tied with 17 names at #1,944; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.