Neo
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #13,464 · #1,064 for boys in 2025, 204 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 240 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,117since 1990
Neo over time
Rank among boys' names. Neo has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,064 | 204 | |
| 2024 | — | #961 | 236 | |
| 2023 | — | #971 | 226 | |
| 2022 | — | #947 | 240 | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #977 | 227 |
| 2020 | — | #1,101 | 180 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,413 | 124 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,261 | 145 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,804 | 84 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,610 | 100 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,826 | 81 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,657 | 93 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,182 | 60 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,016 | 69 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,824 | 78 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,144 | 62 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,861 | 78 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,125 | 64 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,016 | 69 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,479 | 103 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,674 | 80 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,349 | 108 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,529 | 84 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,744 | 66 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,208 | 111 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,175 | 116 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,279 | 24 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Neo! It came in at #8,117, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1998, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Neo is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- California#843 · 1 in 7,713
- Florida#929 · 1 in 7,534
- Washington#955 · 1 in 7,407
- New York#1,216 · 1 in 11,111
- Texas#1,304 · 1 in 14,247
Best ever in a state: #474 in Oregon, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #843 | 29 | 1 in 7,713 |
| Florida | #929 | 13 | 1 in 7,534 |
| Washington | #955 | 5 | 1 in 7,407 |
| New York | #1,216 | 9 | 1 in 11,111 |
| Texas | #1,304 | 13 | 1 in 14,247 |
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See more about Neo
- 103 spots since 2024 (#961 → #1,064)
- 37 spots since 2020 (#1,101 → #1,064)
- 762 spots since 2015 (#1,826 → #1,064)
- Biggest jump: 124 spots in 2021 (#1,101 → #977)
- Biggest drop: 103 spots in 2025 (#961 → #1,064)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2022 at #947 (240 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2021–2024
- Highest: 1 in 7,275 boys born in 2022 were named Neo (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,373 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 42.1% of all boys named Neo (1,313) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1990s | 29 | #3,279 (1999) | #5,698 |
| 2000s | 879 | #1,175 (2000) | #1,616 |
| 2010s | 896 | #1,261 (2018) | #1,774 |
| 2020s | 1,313 | #947 (2022) | #1,004 |
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.
Neo in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 18,977 of them was named Neo, which outranked 88.7% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,605Kale101
- #1,605Massimo101
- #1,605Yariel101
- #1,610Neo100
- #1,610Dan100
- #1,610Ilyas100
- #1,610Jahmir100
- #1,618Aryeh99
- #1,618Boyd99
- #1,618Dwight99
Tied with 7 names at #1,610; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.