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Nerea

#9,288 in 2025Girls' name

Mine

Nerea has been given to 126 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #9,288 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Nerea, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nerea: meaning, origin, and history

Mine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nerea means

Nerea means “mine”, associated with nirea.

Origin, language, and formation

Nerea is used in Basque and Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Nerea is pronounced /neɾea/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 126 girls were recorded with the name Nerea between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2022; its best national rank was #7,924 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,629 in 2020 to #9,288 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,957 in 2015 to #9,288 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 Nerea?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,288
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nerea 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nerea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nereas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nerea was born before 2016 — so the typical Nerea is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
126
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Choose a decade

2010s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Nerea 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
+3,792
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,341
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+669
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.6%
Peak was 2022 (14)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,924
2022

Spellings of Nerea

Nerea is not the most common spelling — Andrea is, with 23.3% against Nerea'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 Nerea is used

Across 1910–2025, Nerea was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Nerea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nerea around the world

Where Nerea 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
    2001–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • France
    1975–2025
    #2,909
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1971–1971
    #724
    in 1971

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.

Nerea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,288
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,341
Best rank ever
#7,924
2022
Peak year
2022
14 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
126
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Nerea

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

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Sibling names for Nerea

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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