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Nevena

#16,582 in 2025Girls' name

Marigold

Nevena has been given to 107 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #16,582 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Nevena, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nevena: meaning, origin, and history

Marigold

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nevena means

Nevena means “marigold”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nevena is used in Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian and Serbian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /nɛ.ˈvɛ.nɐ/ and /ˈnɛ.vɛ.na/ for Nevena.

Origin, language, and formation

Nevena is used in Czech.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Nevena is pronounced [ˈnɛvɛna].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 107 girls were recorded with the name Nevena between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2014; its best national rank was #11,361 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #14,633 in 2020 to #16,582 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,377 in 2015 to #16,582 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 Nevena?

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
#16,582
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nevena 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 Nevena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nevenas were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
107
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Nevena 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
−1,793
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,949
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,795
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2014 (9)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,361
2017

Spellings of Nevena

Nevena is not the most common spelling — Elena is, with 29.6% against Nevena's 0.03%.

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.

Nevena around the world

Where Nevena 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
    2021–2024
    #3,696
    in 2024
  • France
    1969–2024
    #6,148
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2002–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nevena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,582
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,949
Best rank ever
#11,361
2017
Peak year
2014
9 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
107
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Nevena

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

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Sibling names for Nevena

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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