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Neila

#4,244 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Neila has been given to 1,405 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #4,244 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Neila, 2025

1 in 97,500

Neila over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Neila: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Neila means

Neila is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Neila is used in Portuguese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Neila is pronounced /ˈnej.lɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,405 girls were recorded with the name Neila between 1900 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2009; its best national rank was #2,008 in 1944.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,466 in 2020 to #4,244 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,416 in 2015 to #4,244 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.

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How common is Neila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 47,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,244
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Neila 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Neila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Neilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Neila was born before 2000 — so the typical Neila is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
21.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,129
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Choose a decade

2010s — 21.2% of all recorded uses (298).

Is Neila 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
−149
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,222
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,172
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.36×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.3%
Peak was 2009 (47)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,008
1944

Spellings of Neila

Neila is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 19.0% against Neila's 0.08%.

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 Neila is used

Across 1910–2025, Neila was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 461,895 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Neila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Neila around the world

Where Neila 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
    2002–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2012
    #768
    in 2012
  • France
    1967–2025
    #595
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Neila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,244
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,222
Best rank ever
#2,008
1944
Peak year
2009
47 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,405
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Neila

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

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Sibling names for Neila

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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