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Neha

#5,661 in 2025Girls' name

Affection, love, through नेहा

Neha has been given to 4,351 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #5,661 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 223 recorded.

Babies named Neha, 2025

1 in 151,000

Neha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Neha: meaning, origin, and history

Affection, love, through नेहा

Hindi

What Neha means

Neha belongs to the name family reached through Neha → नेहा. Its meaning is “affection, love”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Hindi नेहा (nehā). Doublet of snow.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Neha (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Neha is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Neha comes through Hindi नेहा.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include नेहा.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,351 girls were recorded with the name Neha between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 223 in 2004; its best national rank was #968 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,439 in 2020 to #5,661 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,463 in 2015 to #5,661 in 2025.

How common is Neha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,661
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Neha 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Neha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nehas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Neha was born before 2002 — so the typical Neha is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,351
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 43.4% of all recorded uses (1,890).

Is Neha 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
+250
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−222
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,198
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.9%
Peak was 2004 (223)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#968
2000

Spellings of Neha

Neha is not the most common spelling — Eva is, with 15.7% against Neha's 0.24%.

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.

Where Neha is used

Across 1910–2025, Neha was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 41,315 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 11,111
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 33,333
  4. 4New York1 in 33,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Virginia1 in 33,333
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 50,000

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. Neha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Neha around the world

Where Neha 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
    1996–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2000–2015
    #653
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2005–2013
    #894
    in 2013
  • France
    1995–2025
    #4,112
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1996–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Neha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,661
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 222
Best rank ever
#968
2000
Peak year
2004
223 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,351
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Neha

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

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Names with a curve like Neha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Neha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JulisaJamiaCharismaYahairaRiannaAzucenaKameronJackelynMarlenCailinJackelineJaquelyn

Sibling names for Neha

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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