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Nevaeh

The girl's name Nevaeh has been in the national records since 1997, with 98,924 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 165th. About 98,000 Nevaehs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Nevaeh boys named Nevaeh

By the numbers

Total US births
98,924
Estimated living today
98,000
Median age today
14
Peak year
2007
Best rank
31st
Rank in 2025
165th
First recorded
1997
Girls / boys
98,497 / 427

How old the living Nevaehs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 98,924 babies given the name since 1997, about 98,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 72,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a coined name

From heaven, spelled backwards. Popular since 2000 when the rock singer Sonny Sandoval gave the name to his baby daughter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Nevaeh is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Nevaeh is most concentrated in Nevada (2.8×), New Mexico (2.4×), Arizona (2.2×), Alaska (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular girls’ names the year Nevaeh peaked:

All the names of 2007

Nevaeh elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Nevaeh 8,228 102nd
New Zealand girls Nevaeh 723 38th
Ireland girls Nevaeh 416 118th
Scotland girls Nevaeh 199 225th
Northern Ireland girls Nevaeh 196 98th
France girls Nevaeh 70 6,112th
England and Wales boys Nevaeh 11 3,095th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Nevaeh against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.