Neymar

Where Neymar comes from

Neymar 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.

Along the way
  1. 1992
    Neymar born
    Brazilian footballer
  2. 2010
    First appearance
    #4,848 among boys, 19 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2014
    Peak, #551
    499 babies named Neymar — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2016
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #891.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Neymar · Brazilian footballer, 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.