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Nev

#16,581 in 2025Girls' name

Néel's estate, through Neville

Nev has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #16,581 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Nev, 2025

1 in 663,000

Nev over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nev: meaning, origin, and history

Néel's estate, through Neville

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nev means

Nev belongs to the name family reached through Nev → Neville. Its meaning is “Néel's estate”.

Origin, language, and formation

Nev is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Neville.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 35 girls were recorded with the name Nev between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2023; its best national rank was #10,928 in 2023.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,375 in 2015 to #16,581 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 Nev?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,581
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nev 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nev. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nevs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nev was born before 2019 — so the typical Nev is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
35
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Choose a decade

2020s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (14).

Is Nev 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
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,794
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2023 (9)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,928
2023

Nev around the world

Where Nev 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.

  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nev by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,581
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#10,928
2023
Peak year
2023
9 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Nev

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

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Sibling names for Nev

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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