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Neymar

#2,527 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Neymar has been given to 2,902 babies in the U.S. since 2010. In 2025 it ranked #2,527 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 499 recorded.

Babies named Neymar, 2025

1 in 62,600

Neymar over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Neymar: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Portuguese

What Neymar means

Neymar is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Neymar is used in Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Portuguese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Neymar is pronounced /nejˈma(ʁ)/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,897 boys were recorded with the name Neymar between 2010 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 499 in 2014; its best national rank was #551 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,712 in 2020 to #2,527 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #795 in 2015 to #2,527 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Neymar between 2014 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2014; its best national rank was #18,472 in 2014.

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 Neymar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 62,600
53 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 32,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,527
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
43,358 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Neymar 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 43,358 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Neymar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Neymars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Neymar was born before 2015 — so the typical Neymar is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
83.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,897
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 83.7% of all recorded uses (2,426).

Is Neymar 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
−223
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−815
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,732
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.18×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.6%
Peak was 2014 (499)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
82.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#551
2014

Spellings of Neymar

Neymar is not the most common spelling — Delmar is, with 57.9% against Neymar's 11.8%.

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 Neymar is used

Across 2016–2025, Neymar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 16,406 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 10,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 10,000
  3. 3New York1 in 10,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 12,500
  5. 5Texas1 in 14,286
  6. 6Washington1 in 14,286
  7. 7Oregon1 in 16,667
  8. 8Illinois1 in 20,000

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.

Neymar around the world

Where Neymar 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
    2012–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2011–2025
    #5,759
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2016
    #2,441
    in 2016

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.

Notable people named Neymar

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

  • NeymarAssociation football player
    b. 1992

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.

Neymar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,527
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 815
Best rank ever
#551
2014
Peak year
2014
499 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,897
Count in 2025
53

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#18,472
2014
Peak year
2014
5 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Neymar

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

ShemarNeythanShamarAmmarOsmarNeylandJomarLemarKamarJosmarDemarSamarWilmarDelmarUmarJaymarDamarBaldemarNeylanAmarOumarWaldemarItamarZamar

Names with a curve like Neymar

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

BentleeXaviBrentleyBrantleeJaxenBentlyUrijahCamdynJayseAarushCrosbyBrayson

Sibling names for Neymar

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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