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Nehir

#14,429 in 2025Girls' name

River

Nehir has been given to 70 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #14,429 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Nehir, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nehir: meaning, origin, and history

River

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nehir means

Nehir means “river”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nehir is used in Turkish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ne.ˈhiɾ/ for Nehir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 70 girls were recorded with the name Nehir between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2013; its best national rank was #10,056 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,820 in 2020 to #14,429 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,364 in 2015 to #14,429 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 Nehir?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,429
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nehir 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nehir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nehirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nehir was born before 2017 — so the typical Nehir is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
68.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
70
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 68.6% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Nehir 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,391
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,935
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.5%
Peak was 2013 (11)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,056
2013

Spellings of Nehir

Nehir is not the most common spelling — Neha is, with 40.6% against Nehir's 0.65%.

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.

Nehir around the world

Where Nehir 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
    2005–2024
    #3,319
    in 2024
  • France
    2005–2025
    #2,726
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,940
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nehir by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,429
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,391
Best rank ever
#10,056
2013
Peak year
2013
11 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
70
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Nehir

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

NehalNehmatNehlaniYahirNehemieShirNeharikaNehemiahNeharaZahirNehaSaphir

Sibling names for Nehir

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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