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Nenad

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Slavic languages origin

Nenad has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1979, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Nenad, 2001

1 in 748,000

Nenad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nenad: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Slavic languages origin

Slavic languages

What Nenad means

Nenad is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nenad is used in English and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Slavic languages.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Nenad is pronounced /nênaːd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 boys were recorded with the name Nenad between 1969 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1979; its best national rank was #3,502 in 1969.

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 Nenad?

Nenad had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nenad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nenad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nenads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nenad was born before 1979 — so the typical Nenad is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
44.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
43
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Nenad 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (9)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,502
1969

Spellings of Nenad

Nenad is not the most common spelling — Neal is, with 51.6% against Nenad's 0.04%.

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.

Nenad around the world

Where Nenad 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.

  • France
    1966–2018
    #5,366
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1963–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nenad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,502
1969
Peak year
1979
9 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nenad

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

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Sibling names for Nenad

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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