Ney
Where Ney comes from
Ney hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1889Debut at its peak, #974#974 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1890The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
- 1941Ney Matogrosso bornBrazilian singer
- 1966Ney Franco bornBrazilian association football player
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Ney Franco · Brazilian association football player, born 1966
- Ney Matogrosso · Brazilian singer, born 1941
- Ney Rosauro · Brazilian musician, born 1952
- Ney Latorraca · Brazilian actor, 1944–2024
- Ney Elias · British explorer, 1844–1897
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.