Neela
#3,296 for girls in 2025, 47 births
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 103 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,374since 1972
Neela over time
Rank among girls' names. Neela 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 | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,296 | 47 |
| 2024 | #3,013 | 54 |
| 2023 | #3,525 | 44 |
| 2022 | #3,536 | 44 |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 |
| 2020 | #3,450 | 44 |
| 2019 | #3,085 | 52 |
| 2018 | #3,004 | 54 |
| 2017 | #3,305 | 48 |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 |
| 2015 | #2,927 | 59 |
| 2014 | #3,080 | 54 |
| 2013 | #3,076 | 53 |
| 2012 | #3,419 | 47 |
| 2011 | #2,796 | 62 |
| 2010 | #2,642 | 68 |
| 2009 | #2,286 | 85 |
| 2008 | #2,157 | 93 |
| 2007 | #1,988 | 103 |
| 2006 | #2,602 | 69 |
| 2005 | #3,317 | 46 |
| 2004 | #3,631 | 40 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 |
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| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 |
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| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
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| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
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| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
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| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
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| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Neela! It came in at #7,292, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Neela is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#1,402 · 1 in 10,353
- California#1,860 · 1 in 16,231
Best ever in a state: #752 in Washington, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #1,402 | 5 | 1 in 10,353 |
| California | #1,860 | 13 | 1 in 16,231 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Neela
- 283 spots since 2024 (#3,013 → #3,296)
- 154 spots since 2020 (#3,450 → #3,296)
- 369 spots since 2015 (#2,927 → #3,296)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2007 at #1,988 (103 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,666 girls born in 2007 were named Neela (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,197 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.1% of all girls named Neela (524) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 41 | #6,189 (1979) | #7,479 |
| 1980s | 48 | #6,323 (1981) | #7,804 |
| 1990s | 27 | #8,122 (1994) | #11,477 |
| 2000s | 465 | #1,988 (2007) | #5,114 |
| 2010s | 524 | #2,642 (2010) | #3,232 |
| 2020s | 269 | #3,013 (2024) | #3,472 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Neela in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 26,141 of them was named Neela, which outranked 86.7% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,614Tionna69
- #2,614Zamya69
- #2,614Zelda69
- #2,642Neela68
- #2,642Abigael68
- #2,642Aislin68
- #2,642Alizabeth68
- #2,670Aaliah67
- #2,670Adara67
- #2,670Agnes67
Tied with 27 names at #2,642; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.