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Nevaeh vs Nevaeha

American parents have registered 98,924 Nevaehs since 1880, against 1,070 Nevaehas. Nevaeh is still ahead, with 1,828 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nevaeh against Nevaeha, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nevaeh Nevaeha

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Nevaeh has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1997 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Nevaeh had 6,856 and Nevaeha had 134.

Side by side

  Nevaeh Nevaeha
Total US births 98,9241,070
Most in one year 6,856134
Babies in 2025 1,8289
Estimated living today 98,0001,100
Median age today 1416
Peak year 20072007
Best rank 31st girls1,655th girls
Rank in 2025 165th10,107th
First recorded 19972001
Girls / boys 98,497 / 4271,070 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Nevaehas alive today are over 16; half the Nevaehs are over 14. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Nevaeh Nevaeha
England and Wales 8,23915

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nevaeh and Nevaeha.