Nevada
Nevada is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 37 births. Its best rank was 441st, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 370.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 200360 births
- Best rank
- #441in 1882
- Since 1880
- 3,858people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,148 girls have been named Nevada in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 60 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 2000s alone account for 14%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Nevada is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are boys (710), most of them born around 1995.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Nevada | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 100 | |
| 1890s | 151 | |
| 1900s | 152 | |
| 1910s | 307 | |
| 1920s | 340 | |
| 1930s | 238 | |
| 1940s | 129 | |
| 1950s | 138 | |
| 1960s | 90 | |
| 1970s | 132 | |
| 1980s | 153 | |
| 1990s | 314 | |
| 2000s | 433 | |
| 2010s | 280 | |
| 2020s | 191 |
In 2003, its biggest year
Nevada was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2003 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Hannah and Olivia. See all of 2003.
Names that rose and fell with Nevada
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lovinapeak 2023
- Daiseypeak 2000
- Daisypeak 2024
- Zadapeak 2006
- Irenapeak 2024
- Annapeak 1918
- Alidapeak 1917
- Almirapeak 1917
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.