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Nevada vs Nevaeha

American parents have registered 3,913 Nevadas since 1880, against 1,070 Nevaehas. Nevada is still ahead, with 52 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nevada against Nevaeha, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nevada Nevaeha

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Nevada for 134 years and Nevaeha for 12 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Nevada Nevaeha
Total US births 3,9131,070
Most in one year 74134
Babies in 2025 529
Estimated living today 2,5001,100
Median age today 2716
Peak year 20032007
Best rank 2,638th girls1,655th girls
Rank in 2025 3,780th10,107th
First recorded 18802001
Girls / boys 3,190 / 7231,070 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Nevadas alive today are over 27; half the Nevaehas are over 16. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Nevada Nevaeha
England and Wales 7215

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nevada and Nevaeha.