Neiva
#14,430 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Neiva has been given to 130 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #14,430 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Neiva, 2025
1 in 553,000
Neiva 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Neiva?
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
- #14,430
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Neiva sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Neiva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Neivas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Neiva was born before 2000 — so the typical Neiva is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 31.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 47.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 130
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (41).
Is Neiva 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
- −1,751
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.75×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 22.2%
- Peak was 1988 (27)
- Years since peak
- 37
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.0% average annual change
Spellings of Neiva
Neiva is not the most common spelling — Eva is, with 30.4% against Neiva's 0.01%.
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 Neiva is used
Across 1910–2025, Neiva was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 764,694 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Neiva has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Neiva around the world
Where Neiva 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 & Wales2011–2018#3,518in 2018
- France2000–2000#4,319in 2000
- South Australia2011–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Neiva by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Neiva
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Neiva
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.