Neo
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #13,464 · #1,064 for boys in 2025, 204 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 240 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,117since 1990
Neo over time
Rank among boys' names. Neo 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 | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,064 | 204 | |
| 2024 | — | #961 | 236 | |
| 2023 | — | #971 | 226 | |
| 2022 | — | #947 | 240 | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #977 | 227 |
| 2020 | — | #1,101 | 180 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,413 | 124 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,261 | 145 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,804 | 84 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,610 | 100 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,826 | 81 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,657 | 93 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,182 | 60 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,016 | 69 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,824 | 78 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,144 | 62 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,861 | 78 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,125 | 64 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,016 | 69 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,479 | 103 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,674 | 80 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,349 | 108 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,529 | 84 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,744 | 66 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,208 | 111 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,175 | 116 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,279 | 24 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Neo! It came in at #8,117, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1998, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Neo
- 103 spots since 2024 (#961 → #1,064)
- 37 spots since 2020 (#1,101 → #1,064)
- 762 spots since 2015 (#1,826 → #1,064)
- Biggest jump: 124 spots in 2021 (#1,101 → #977)
- Biggest drop: 103 spots in 2025 (#961 → #1,064)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2022 at #947 (240 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2021–2024
- Highest: 1 in 7,275 boys born in 2022 were named Neo (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,373 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 42.1% of all boys named Neo (1,313) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 29 | #3,279 (1999) | #5,698 |
| 2000s | 879 | #1,175 (2000) | #1,616 |
| 2010s | 896 | #1,261 (2018) | #1,774 |
| 2020s | 1,313 | #947 (2022) | #1,004 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Neo in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 273,477 of them was named Neo, which outranked 23.8% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,206Zurina7
- #12,206Zylani7
- #12,206Zymirah7
- #13,464Neo6
- #13,464Aadhvika6
- #13,464Aakifah6
- #13,464Aaleya6
- #15,251Aabha5
- #15,251Aadhirai5
- #15,251Aadvi5
Tied with 1,786 names at #13,464; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 7,707 of them was named Neo, which outranked 93.1% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).