Ney

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Ney has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1916, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Ney, 1987

1 in 721,000

Ney over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ney: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ney means

Ney is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ney is used in Portuguese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Ney is pronounced /ˈnej/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 31 boys were recorded with the name Ney between 1889 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,065 in 1889.

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.

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How common is Ney?

Ney had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987: 1 in 721,000; 5 of 3,605,072 births
Among boys only: 1 in 373,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1987: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 499,770 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ney 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 1987 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 499,770 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Neys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ney was born before 1916 — so the typical Ney is around 109 today.

Median birth year: 1916; About 109 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 51.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 16.1%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 51.6% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Ney 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: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1916 (11)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 54.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,065; 1889

Where Ney is used

Across 1910–2025, Ney was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 705,729 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1North Carolina1 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. Ney has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ney by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,065; 1889
Peak year: 1916; 11 that year
First recorded: 1889
Last recorded: 1987
All-time count: 31
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ney

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

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Sibling names for Ney

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie Cecil Ona

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Sydney Meyer

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