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Neysa vs Neyva

American parents have registered 1,288 Neysas since 1880, against 48 Neyvas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Neysa against Neyva, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Neysa Neyva

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 97 years in which either name was published, Neysa for 95 years and Neyva for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Neysa Neyva
Total US births 1,28848
Most in one year 3422
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,10050
Median age today 4636
Peak year 19711988
Best rank 2,296th girls4,015th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19171988
Girls / boys 1,288 / 048 / 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 Neysas alive today are over 46; half the Neyvas are over 36. That is 10 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 Neysa Neyva
France 2015

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: Neysa and Neyva.