Neenah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Neenah has been given to 245 babies in the U.S. since 1949. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Neenah, 2020
1 in 557,000
Neenah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Neenah?
Neenah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 269,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,120 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Neenah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Neenah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Neenahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Neenah was born before 2004 — so the typical Neenah is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 42.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 240
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (103).
Is Neenah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (16)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.9% average annual change
Spellings of Neenah
Neenah is not the most common spelling — Deena is, with 22.7% against Neenah's 0.41%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Neenah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Neenah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Neenah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.