Neriah
#760 for girls in 2025, 356 births · #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
Given to girls 97.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 356 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,651since 1994
Neriah over time
Rank among girls' names. Neriah has never cracked the top 700 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 | #760 | 356 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #827 | 332 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #989 | 258 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #994 | 264 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #1,680 | 123 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #1,593 | 131 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #1,875 | 107 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #2,098 | 91 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,074 | 94 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #1,286 | 187 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #946 | 287 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | #933 | 289 | — | |
| 2013 | #941 | 268 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #1,340 | 175 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,619 | 133 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,959 | 102 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #2,316 | 84 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #3,316 | 50 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,096 | 56 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,811 | 29 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,208 | 24 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,655 | 38 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 | — | |
| 2001 | #5,009 | 23 | — | |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | — | |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 | — | |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 | — | |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Neriah! It came in at #8,804, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1995, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
Where Neriah is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#656 · 1 in 3,633
- Florida#708 · 1 in 3,981
- Washington#849 · 1 in 4,350
- Illinois#1,071 · 1 in 6,528
- New York#1,072 · 1 in 6,591
Best ever in a state: #332 in Connecticut, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #656 | 7 | 1 in 3,633 |
| Florida | #708 | 20 | 1 in 3,981 |
| Washington | #849 | 7 | 1 in 4,350 |
| Illinois | #1,071 | 9 | 1 in 6,528 |
| New York | #1,072 | 14 | 1 in 6,591 |
| Michigan | #1,213 | 5 | 1 in 8,234 |
| Texas | #1,239 | 19 | 1 in 8,332 |
| Georgia | #1,288 | 6 | 1 in 7,885 |
| California | #1,350 | 21 | 1 in 9,956 |
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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 Neriah
- 67 spots since 2024 (#827 → #760)
- 833 spots since 2020 (#1,593 → #760)
- 186 spots since 2015 (#946 → #760)
- Biggest jump: 686 spots in 2022 (#1,680 → #994)
- Biggest drop: 340 spots in 2016 (#946 → #1,286)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2025 at #760 (356 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2022–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,515 girls born in 2025 were named Neriah (0.02%)
- 47.5% of all girls named Neriah (1,733) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 82 | #5,010 (1997) | #6,975 |
| 2000s | 372 | #2,316 (2009) | #4,368 |
| 2010s | 1,733 | #933 (2014) | #1,507 |
| 2020s | 1,464 | #760 (2025) | #1,141 |
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.
Neriah in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
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1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 10,063 of them was named Neriah, which outranked 93.1% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,334Lacie176
- #1,334Shirley176
- #1,334Tyler176
- #1,340Neriah175
- #1,340Addalyn175
- #1,340Ashleigh175
- #1,340Avalynn175
- #1,346Amora174
- #1,346Darla174
- #1,346Della174
Tied with 5 names at #1,340; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.