Neely
Neely is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 197475 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1888
- 2,593people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,202 girls have been named Neely in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1974, with 75 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 2000s alone account for 24%.
Neely is used for both sexes: 15% of its bearers are boys (391), most of them born around 1919.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Neely | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 13 | |
| 1920s | 11 | |
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 10 | |
| 1960s | 62 | |
| 1970s | 408 | |
| 1980s | 287 | |
| 1990s | 274 | |
| 2000s | 534 | |
| 2010s | 439 | |
| 2020s | 144 |
In 1974, its biggest year
Neely was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1974 were Jennifer, Amy, Michelle, Heather and Angela. See all of 1974.
Names that rose and fell with Neely
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Evangeliapeak 2007
- Danyapeak 2007
- Jolenapeak 1982
- Shantipeak 2003
- Charispeak 2006
- Breepeak 2010
- Sammipeak 1974
- Anicapeak 2001
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.