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Neymar vs Neythan

American parents have registered 2,902 Neymars since 1880, against 919 Neythans. But in 2025 it was Neythan that was commoner, 255 babies to 53.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Neymar against Neythan, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Neymar Neythan

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

Of the 17 years in which either name was published, Neymar for 13 years and Neythan for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Neymar Neythan
Total US births 2,902919
Most in one year 504255
Babies in 2025 53255
Estimated living today 2,900910
Median age today 102
Peak year 20142025
Best rank 551st boys924th boys
Rank in 2025 2,516th924th
First recorded 20102008
Girls / boys 5 / 2,8970 / 919

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 Neymars alive today are over 10; half the Neythans are over 2. That is 8 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 Neymar Neythan
France 13010

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: Neymar and Neythan.