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Nereida

Girls' name

Nymphs, sea sprites

Nereida has been given to 3,703 babies in the U.S. since 1936. 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 1981, with 149 recorded.

Babies named Nereida, 2024

1 in 371,000

Nereida over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nereida: meaning, origin, and history

Nymphs, sea sprites

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nereida means

Nereida means “nymphs, sea sprites”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nereida is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ne.ˈɾei̯.ða/ for Nereida.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,697 girls were recorded with the name Nereida between 1936 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 149 in 1981; its best national rank was #985 in 1981.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Nereida between 1981 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1981; its best national rank was #6,014 in 1981.

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.

How common is Nereida?

Nereida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 180,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nereida 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 2024 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nereida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nereidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nereida was born before 1982 — so the typical Nereida is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,644
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Choose a decade

1980s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (799).

Is Nereida 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 1981 (149)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#985
1981

Spellings of Nereida

Nereida is not the most common spelling — Freida is, with 50.2% against Nereida's 17.2%.

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 Nereida is used

Across 1910–2025, Nereida was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 27,824 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 33,333
  5. 5Arizona1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7Connecticut1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 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. Nereida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nereida by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#985
1981
Peak year
1981
149 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,697
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,014
1981
Peak year
1981
6 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
1981
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nereida

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

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Names with a curve like Nereida

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nereida, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Nereida

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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