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Nea

#7,048 in 2025Girls' name

Linden tree, through Linnea

Nea has been given to 417 babies in the U.S. since 1932. In 2025 it ranked #7,048 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Nea, 2025

1 in 207,000

Nea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nea: meaning, origin, and history

Linden tree, through Linnea

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nea means

Nea belongs to the name family reached through Nea → Linnea → Linnea. Its meaning is “linden tree”.

Origin, language, and formation

Nea is used in Finnish.

Nea is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Linnea.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Nea is pronounced /ˈneɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 417 girls were recorded with the name Nea between 1932 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2007; its best national rank was #4,900 in 1932.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,088 in 2020 to #7,048 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,954 in 2015 to #7,048 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nea?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,048
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nea sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Neas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nea was born before 2006 — so the typical Nea is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
412
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 28.1% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Nea rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,752
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,040
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,906
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.45×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2007 (16)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,900
1932

Where Nea is used

Across 1910–2025, Nea was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,592,652 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nea around the world

Where Nea ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2025
    #2,330
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1955–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nea by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,048
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,040
Best rank ever
#4,900
1932
Peak year
2007
16 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
417
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Nea

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

NeahNealaNealLaneaNealyNaneaAneaNeaveLyneaDeneaNealieDaneaNeavehJaneaGeneaMoneaTaneaAteneaJeneaLeneaTeneaAlineaLineaLynnea

Sibling names for Nea

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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