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Nevaeh vs Neve

American parents have registered 98,924 Nevaehs since 1880, against 1,608 Neves. Nevaeh is still ahead, with 1,828 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nevaeh against Neve, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nevaeh Neve

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 30 years in which either name was published, Nevaeh for 26 years and Neve for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Nevaeh Neve
Total US births 98,9241,608
Most in one year 6,85695
Babies in 2025 1,82851
Estimated living today 98,0001,600
Median age today 1413
Peak year 20072010
Best rank 31st girls2,077th girls
Rank in 2025 165th3,130th
First recorded 19971996
Girls / boys 98,497 / 4271,608 / 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.

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 Nevaeh Neve
England and Wales 8,2397,260
Scotland 1991,103
Ireland 4163
Northern Ireland 19677
France 70115

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: Nevaeh and Neve.