# Neva (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/neva/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 21,226 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6 / 21,220 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 160, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 93 | 2,083 |
| 2012 | 84 | 2,258 |
| 2013 | 79 | 2,340 |
| 2014 | 87 | 2,193 |
| 2015 | 87 | 2,187 |
| 2016 | 91 | 2,141 |
| 2017 | 96 | 2,050 |
| 2018 | 91 | 2,111 |
| 2019 | 68 | 2,586 |
| 2020 | 68 | 2,542 |
| 2021 | 62 | 2,778 |
| 2022 | 63 | 2,746 |
| 2023 | 65 | 2,693 |
| 2024 | 41 | 3,736 |
| 2025 | 47 | 3,333 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 6 | 4,036 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 11 | 2,235 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,460 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3,514 |
| 2015 | 7 | 3,252 |
| 2016 | 7 | 3,214 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,901 |
| 2019 | 12 | 2,170 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 13 | 2,073 |
| 2022 | 7 | 3,148 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2,411 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,705 |

## People named Neva

- Neva Patterson, American film, stage and television actress (1920–2010)
- Neva Morris, American supercentenarian (1895–2010)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.