Neko
- Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293
- #3,379 for boys in 2025, 34 births
- Given to boys 80.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 55 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,001since 1969
Neko over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,379 | 34 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #3,986 | 27 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #3,474 | 33 |
| 2022 | — | #3,151 | 38 | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #2,439 | 55 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #3,136 | 36 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #3,518 | 31 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #3,591 | 30 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #2,955 | 38 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #2,517 | 49 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 | #3,181 | 35 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | #3,045 | 38 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #3,744 | 28 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #3,188 | 35 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #4,370 | 21 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #4,129 | 21 |
| 2003 | — | #4,276 | 19 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,188 | 28 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,676 | 16 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,536 | 23 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,035 | 13 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,849 | 18 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,668 | 13 | |
| 1996 | — | #6,496 | 8 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,280 | 14 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,094 | 15 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,227 | 14 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,467 | 29 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,105 | 20 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,309 | 18 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,017 | 13 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,765 | 20 | |
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| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | — | |
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| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | — | |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1969
The first year at least five boys were named Neko! It came in at #4,404, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Neko is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Neko in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Neko
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 607 spots since 2024 (#3,986 → #3,379)
- 243 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #3,379)
- 212 spots since 2015 (#3,591 → #3,379)
Rise & fade · boys
52 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2021 at #2,439 (55 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 31,809
- Highest: 1 in 31,809 boys born in 2021 were named Neko (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 50,238 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 32.7% of all boys named Neko (327) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1981
- Mostly girls until 1980, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,404 (1969) | #4,404 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 39 | #2,765 (1988) | #4,083 |
| 1990s | 162 | #2,467 (1992) | #4,153 |
| 2000s | 245 | #3,045 (2009) | #3,919 |
| 2010s | 327 | #2,517 (2012) | #3,427 |
| 2020s | 223 | #2,439 (2021) | #3,261 |
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.
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