Neave

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Neave: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Neave: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #359 in 2014, and it stood at #431 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#359highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#1074
1998	#701
1999	#653
2000	#607
2001	#593
2002	#702
2003	#818
2004	#500
2005	#625
2006	#665
2007	#637
2008	#618
2009	#586
2010	#655
2011	#594
2012	#587
2013	#584
2014	#359
2015	#437
2016	#481
2017	#560
2018	#633
2019	#632
2020	#571
2021	#634
2022	#706
2023	#657
2024	#722

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #431 among girls in Scotland, #722 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2096 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #359 among girls in England and Wales, in 2014 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #722 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Neave by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Neave in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	96	4 of 10	24
2000s	500	10 of 10	50
2010sbusiest	788	10 of 10	79
2020s	289	5 of 10	58

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 79 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2013 and 2014, when recorded births rose by 56, from 70 to 126.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Neave appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #359 in England and Wales in 2014.

Neave's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#722	52	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#657	55	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#706	52	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#634	61	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#571	69	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#632	62	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#633	64	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#560	77	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#481	91	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#437	101	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#359	126	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#584	70	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#587	72	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#594	68	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#586	65	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#618	60	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#637	55	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#665	47	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#625	50	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#500	66	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#818	32	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#702	37	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#593	45	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#607	43	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#653	37	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#701	34	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1074	18	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#431	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #359, first reached in 2014.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 126 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Riya · #359, 29y
Alanis · #358, 29y
Maira · #358, 29y
Md · #361, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Rajan · #359, 29y
Riya · #359, 29y
Sabah · #359, 28y
Alanis · #358, 29y

Neave was ranked #359 in England and Wales · Girls in 2014. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Neave and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Neave without appearing here.

Neave moved ahead of

Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1074 and #3824.
Evan Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1074 and #3174.
Lynette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1074 and #3174.
Therese Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1074 and #3174.

Moved ahead of Neave

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #594 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #587 and #284.
Aria Compare
In 2011 they stood at #594 and #615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #587 and #294.
Beau Compare
In 2004 they stood at #500 and #528 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #625 and #473.
Audrey Compare
In 2014 they stood at #359 and #386 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #437 and #298.

Moved the opposite way to Neave

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neave went from #2096 to #722 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neave went from #2096 to #722 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neave went from #2096 to #722 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neave went from #2096 to #722 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Neave

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neave went from #2096 to #722 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neave went from #2096 to #722 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neave went from #2096 to #722 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neave went from #2096 to #722 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #359 in England and Wales in 2014. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Neave by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Neave at a glance

Neave by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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