Nevaeh

Where Nevaeh comes from

From heaven, spelled backwards. Popular since 2000 when the rock singer Sonny Sandoval gave the name to his baby daughter.
— Wiktionary's entry for Nevaeh
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1997
    First appearance
    #13,724 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2010
    Peak, #25
    6,446 babies named Nevaeh — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #89.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes

No widely known Nevaeh turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.