Neva

Where Neva comes from

Neva hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #388 among girls — 18 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1895
    Neva Morris born
    American supercentenarian
  3. 1898
    Peak, #212
    183 babies named Neva — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1920
    Neva Patterson born
    American film, stage and television actress
  5. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,208.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Neva Patterson · American film, stage and television actress, 1920–2010
  • Neva Morris · American supercentenarian, 1895–2010
  • Neva Abelson · physician, 1910–2000
  • Neva Krasteva · Bulgarian composer and organist, born 1946
  • Neva Leoni · Italian actress, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.