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Neville

#6,700 in 2025Boys' name

Néel's estate

Neville has been given to 2,418 babies in the U.S. since 1905. In 2025 it ranked #6,700 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Neville, 2025

1 in 255,000

Neville over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Neville: meaning, origin, and history

Néel's estate

surname transfer

What Neville means

Neville means “Néel's estate”, associated with Neville.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* A Norman baronial surname, de Neville, from place names in Normandy, Néville, from Old French Neville (literally “Néel's estate”) or Neuville (literally “new settlement”), equivalent to nuef + ville. * Also as an Irish surname, from Ó Niadh (see Nee) or Ó Cnaimhín (see Nevin).

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Origin, language, and formation

Neville is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Neville comes through Old French Neville.

Neville is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Neville is pronounced /ˈnɛvəl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,343 boys were recorded with the name Neville between 1905 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,003 in 1909.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,807 in 2020 to #6,700 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,447 in 2015 to #6,700 in 2025.

In the United States, 75 girls were recorded with the name Neville between 1912 and 1947. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1925; its best national rank was #2,730 in 1925.

How common is Neville?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,700
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Neville 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 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Neville. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nevilles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Neville was born before 1967 — so the typical Neville is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
11.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,564
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 11.7% of all recorded uses (273).

Is Neville 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
+3,898
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,893
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,253
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.0%
Peak was 1975 (42)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,003
1909

Spellings of Neville

Neville is not the most common spelling — Orville is, with 83.0% against Neville's 5.5%.

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 Neville is used

Across 1910–2025, Neville was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 149,567 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Mississippi1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Neville has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Neville around the world

Where Neville 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–1976
    #213
    in 1976
  • Ireland
    1964–1997
    #382
    in 1997
  • France
    1939–1940
    #866
    in 1940
  • Canada
    2005–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #754
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    1952–1963
    #92
    in 1963

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Neville

People whose public names include Neville, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Neville in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Neville. Linked forms have their own page here.

NevileNevill

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Neville by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,700
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,893
Best rank ever
#1,003
1909
Peak year
1975
42 that year
First recorded
1905
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,343
Count in 2025
13

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,730
1925
Peak year
1925
13 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1947
All-time count
75
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Neville

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

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Names with a curve like Neville

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

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Sibling names for Neville

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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