Neel
#1,571 for boys in 2025, 108 births
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 148 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,392since 1918
Neel over time
Rank among boys' names. Neel has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,571 | 108 |
| 2024 | #1,856 | 87 |
| 2023 | #2,147 | 67 |
| 2022 | #1,665 | 103 |
| 2021 | #1,721 | 94 |
| 2020 | #1,798 | 83 |
| 2019 | #1,849 | 81 |
| 2018 | #1,777 | 86 |
| 2017 | #1,467 | 115 |
| 2016 | #1,628 | 98 |
| 2015 | #1,657 | 95 |
| 2014 | #1,691 | 90 |
| 2013 | #1,782 | 81 |
| 2012 | #1,818 | 81 |
| 2011 | #1,587 | 97 |
| 2010 | #1,250 | 140 |
| 2009 | #1,214 | 148 |
| 2008 | #1,504 | 108 |
| 2007 | #1,365 | 122 |
| 2006 | #1,575 | 93 |
| 2005 | #1,648 | 82 |
| 2004 | #1,542 | 86 |
| 2003 | #1,548 | 82 |
| 2002 | #1,660 | 71 |
| 2001 | #1,572 | 76 |
| 2000 | #1,514 | 79 |
| 1999 | #1,671 | 63 |
| 1998 | #1,488 | 74 |
| 1997 | #1,773 | 54 |
| 1996 | #1,740 | 53 |
| 1995 | #2,299 | 34 |
| 1994 | #2,123 | 38 |
| 1993 | #2,399 | 31 |
| 1992 | #2,046 | 38 |
| 1991 | #1,867 | 42 |
| 1990 | #2,373 | 29 |
| 1989 | #1,858 | 40 |
| 1988 | #1,909 | 34 |
| 1987 | #2,057 | 29 |
| 1986 | #2,601 | 20 |
| 1985 | #1,866 | 31 |
| 1984 | #1,656 | 35 |
| 1983 | #1,748 | 32 |
| 1982 | #1,999 | 27 |
| 1981 | #2,418 | 20 |
| 1980 | #2,367 | 21 |
| 1979 | #2,897 | 15 |
| 1978 | #2,012 | 24 |
| 1977 | #1,948 | 25 |
| 1976 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1974 | #2,459 | 16 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
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| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #3,062 | 9 |
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| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
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| 1956 | #2,798 | 9 |
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| 1952 | #3,734 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
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| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
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| 1927 | #4,210 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #4,347 | 5 |
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| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
| 1919 | #4,168 | 5 |
| 1918 | #3,096 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Neel! It came in at #3,096, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1921–1955, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Neel is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#472 · 1 in 3,143
- Washington#929 · 1 in 6,900
- New Jersey#962 · 1 in 8,034
- California#1,079 · 1 in 10,869
- Pennsylvania#1,223 · 1 in 11,453
Best ever in a state: #425 in New Jersey, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #472 | 9 | 1 in 3,143 |
| Washington | #929 | 5 | 1 in 6,900 |
| New Jersey | #962 | 5 | 1 in 8,034 |
| California | #1,079 | 19 | 1 in 10,869 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,223 | 5 | 1 in 11,453 |
| Illinois | #1,324 | 5 | 1 in 11,934 |
| New York | #1,324 | 8 | 1 in 11,968 |
| Texas | #1,943 | 7 | 1 in 24,982 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Neel
- 285 spots since 2024 (#1,856 → #1,571)
- 227 spots since 2020 (#1,798 → #1,571)
- 86 spots since 2015 (#1,657 → #1,571)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 2009 at #1,214 (148 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,403 boys born in 2009 were named Neel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,816 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 28.4% of all boys named Neel (964) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 13 | #3,096 (1918) | #3,632 |
| 1920s | 16 | #3,815 (1920) | #4,124 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,001 (1930) | #4,001 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,668 |
| 1950s | 14 | #2,798 (1956) | #3,266 |
| 1960s | 22 | #3,044 (1963) | #3,357 |
| 1970s | 119 | #1,948 (1977) | #3,016 |
| 1980s | 289 | #1,656 (1984) | #2,048 |
| 1990s | 456 | #1,488 (1998) | #1,978 |
| 2000s | 947 | #1,214 (2009) | #1,514 |
| 2010s | 964 | #1,250 (2010) | #1,651 |
| 2020s | 542 | #1,571 (2025) | #1,793 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Neel in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 21,118 of them was named Neel, which outranked 87.4% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #1,762Sloan87
- #1,777Neel86
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- #1,777Benito86
- #1,777Edson86
- #1,792Abdullahi85
- #1,792Caelum85
- #1,792Demetri85
Tied with 14 names at #1,777; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.