Neva Girl
How popular is Neva?
#3,295 girl name in 2025
47 baby girls were named Neva in the US in 2025, making it the 3295th most popular girl name.
Neva popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #3,295 for girls (▲ 400 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 47 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-46% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,169 in 2015, #2,523 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1920 (558 girls) |
| Highest rank | #212 in 1898 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Neva counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Neva family of names ranked #2,263 for girls in 2025 (#2,450 the year before), with 55 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Neva | 47 | 85% |
| Nevah | 8 | 15% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Neva is most popular
Babies named Neva per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (31 girls)
- Wisconsin: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (20 girls)
- New York: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (11 girls)
Neva by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 375 | #294 |
| 1890s | 1,125 | #212 |
| 1900s | 1,432 | #258 |
| 1910s | 3,454 | #269 |
| 1920s | 4,294 | #276 |
| 1930s | 2,990 | #332 |
| 1940s | 1,830 | #458 |
| 1950s | 1,766 | #566 |
| 1960s | 950 | #931 |
| 1970s | 535 | #1,418 |
| 1980s | 353 | #2,327 |
| 1990s | 286 | #3,151 |
| 2000s | 633 | #2,148 |
| 2010s | 851 | #2,035 |
| 2020s | 346 | #2,523 |
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Questions
- Is Neva a boy or girl name?
- Neva is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Neva were girls.
- How popular is the name Neva?
- 47 baby girls were named Neva in the US in 2025, making it the 3295th most popular girl name.
- When was Neva most popular?
- Neva peaked in 1920, when 558 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #212 in 1898.
- How many people are named Neva?
- 21,226 babies have been named Neva in the US since 1880. We estimate about 7,332 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 65.
- Where is Neva most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Neva was most common in Ohio, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.