Neva

Where Neva comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Neva.

  • Vowel-ended
Neva through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #388 among girls, with 18 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1895
    Neva Morris born
    American supercentenarian
  3. 1898
    Peak, #212
    183 babies named Neva, its best rank.
  4. 1920
    Neva Patterson born
    American film, stage and television actress
  5. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,208.
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Neva Patterson · American film, stage and television actress, 1920–2010
  • Neva Morris · American supercentenarian, 1895–2010
  • Neva Abelson · physician, 1910–2000
  • Neva Krasteva · Bulgarian composer and organist, born 1946
  • Neva Leoni · Italian actress, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.