Neo

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Neo boys named Neo

By the numbers

Total US births

3,123

Estimated living today

3,100

Median age today

7

Peak year

2022

Best rank

947th

Rank in 2025

1,064th

First recorded

1990

Girls / boys

6 / 3,117

How old the living Neos are

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,123 babies given the name since 1990, about 3,100 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a coined name

Recent coinage from the prefix neo- (“new”). Popularized by a character in the science-fiction film The Matrix (1999), where it is explained as an anagram of "(the) One".

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Neos

• Neo Rauch (born 1960)German painter, photojournalist, and university teacher

People named Neo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Neo is most common

• CA679
• TX326
• FL204
• NY185
• IL103
• NJ52
• GA40
• MN37
• OH37
• WA36

Relative to how many babies each state records, Neo is most concentrated in California (3.5×), Florida (3.1×), Texas (2.2×), Arizona (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2022

The most popular boys’ names the year Neo peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• James
• Elijah
• William

All the names of 2022

Neo elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Neo: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Neo is most concentrated in Thurgau, where 0.10% of children were given it – 57 of them.

Neo: rank by region

In 2025, Neo was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2025, Neo was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Neo appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (Neo, 204th) and Province of Hainaut (Néo, 221st).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Neo by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Neo among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Neo lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 755 men called Neo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 30 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 22 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Neoma
• Neomi
• Neola
• Neomia

Neo against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Neo vs Neoma
• Neo vs Neomi
• Neo vs Neola
• Neo vs Neomia

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