Neha

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Neha: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #411 in 2000, and it stood at #2,574 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#411highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#891
1997	#705
1998	#683
1999	#474
2000	#411
2001	#514
2002	#500
2003	#523
2004	#428
2005	#524
2006	#469
2007	#454
2008	#557
2009	#630
2010	#709
2011	#673
2012	#1099
2013	#959
2014	#1040
2015	#1452
2016	#1278
2017	#1258
2018	#1649
2019	#2869
2020	#2449
2021	#2201
2022	#2058
2023	#2201
2024	#2574

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

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

In 2013: #894 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #959 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 #891 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: #411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2574 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Neha appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,225 births with the name.

Neha across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Neha's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#891 (1996)	#411 (2000)	#2574 (2024)	29 of 29	1,225 (1996–2024)	89 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#587 (2005)	#582 (2009)	#894 (2013)	8 of 9	32 (2005–2013)	6 (2009)

Neha 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 Neha in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	154	4 of 10	39
2000sbusiest	700	10 of 10	70
2010s	314	10 of 10	31
2020s	57	5 of 10	11

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 70 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2011 and 2012, when recorded births fell by 27, from 58 to 31.

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

Neha 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: #411 in England and Wales in 2000.

Neha'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	#2574	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2449	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1258	27	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1278	26	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1452	22	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1040	34	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#959	38	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1099	31	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#673	58	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#709	52	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#630	59	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#557	68	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#454	89	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#469	82	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#524	65	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#428	84	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#523	60	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#500	60	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#514	56	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#411	77	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#474	61	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#683	35	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#705	34	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#891	24	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#582	6	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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 #411, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 89 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 9 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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Nefeli · #790, 17y
Nehan · #1706, 19y
Nehemiah · #655, 27y

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.

Hari · #411, 29y
Ainsley · #410, 27y
Amani · #410, 29y
Anjali · #410, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Hari · #411, 29y
Michela · #411, 20y
Ainsley · #410, 27y
Amani · #410, 29y

Neha was ranked #411 in England and Wales · Girls in 2000. 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.

Neha 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 Neha without appearing here.

Neha moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2449 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2201 and #5581.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2449 and #5493.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2449 and #4535.
Levi Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2449 and #3899.

Moved ahead of Neha

Eileen Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1649 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #1316.
Mathilde Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1649 and #2187 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #1497.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2449 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2201 and #1286.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #1743.

Moved the opposite way to Neha

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neha went from #891 to #2574 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neha went from #891 to #2574 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neha went from #891 to #2574 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neha went from #891 to #2574 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Neha

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neha went from #891 to #2574 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neha went from #891 to #2574 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neha went from #891 to #2574 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neha went from #891 to #2574 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

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: #411 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Neha

Neha at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Neha across 2 official records

Neha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Neha across 2 official records

Neha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Neha moved ahead of

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