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Neha

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Neha is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 21 births. Its best rank was 969th, in 2000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
210.00% of girls
Peak year
2004223 births
Best rank
#969in 2000
Since 1969
4,329people given the name
Babies named Neha, by year of birthgirls
06312518825018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

4,329 girls have been named Neha in the United States since 1969, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 223 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 44%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Neha
1960s9
1970s225
1980s523
1990s941
2000s1,890
2010s628
2020s113

In 2004, its biggest year

Neha was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2004 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Olivia and Hannah. See all of 2004.

Names that rose and fell with Neha

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.