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Neyda vs Neythan

American parents have registered 919 Neythans since 1880, against 682 Neydas. Neythan is still ahead, with 255 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Neyda against Neythan, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Neyda Neythan

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 47 years in which either name was published, Neyda for 33 years and Neythan for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Neyda Neythan
Total US births 682919
Most in one year 53255
Babies in 2025 under 5255
Estimated living today 670910
Median age today 232
Peak year 20022025
Best rank 2,819th girls924th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked924th
First recorded 19562008
Girls / boys 682 / 00 / 919

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 Neydas alive today are over 23; half the Neythans are over 2. That is 21 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.

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