Neve

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Neve: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #115 in 2008, and it stood at #295 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#115highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#689
1998	#296
1999	#232
2000	#185
2001	#179
2002	#188
2003	#180
2004	#138
2005	#155
2006	#123
2007	#129
2008	#115
2009	#129
2010	#142
2011	#146
2012	#159
2013	#192
2014	#193
2015	#217
2016	#212
2017	#243
2018	#229
2019	#243
2020	#286
2021	#275
2022	#324
2023	#358
2024	#583

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: #295 among girls in Scotland, #583 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 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: #115 among girls in England and Wales, in 2008 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #583 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Neve 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 7,180 births with the name.

Neve 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.

Neve'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	#2683 (1996)	#115 (2008)	#583 (2024)	29 of 29	7,180 (1996–2024)	457 (2008)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#229 (1998)	#197 (1999)	#350 (2021)	14 of 24	77 (1998–2021)	8 (1999)

Neve 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 Neve in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	340	4 of 10	85
2000sbusiest	3,414	10 of 10	341
2010s	2,772	10 of 10	277
2020s	654	5 of 10	131

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 341 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2003 and 2004, when recorded births rose by 106, from 268 to 374.

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

Neve 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #115 in England and Wales in 2008.

Neve'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	#583	67	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#358	118	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#324	134	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#275	172	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#286	163	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#243	199	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#229	218	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#243	207	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#212	248	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#217	242	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#193	276	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#192	277	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#159	328	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#146	380	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#142	397	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#129	419	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#115	457	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#129	433	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#123	433	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#155	334	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#138	374	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#180	268	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#188	227	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#179	235	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#185	234	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#232	177	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#296	123	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#689	35	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#276	6	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#224	8	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#283	6	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#282	6	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#277	6	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#245	7	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#248	5	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#267	5	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#348	3	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#197	8	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#229	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#295	12	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
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 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #115, first reached in 2008.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 457 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, 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 4 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.

Charley · #115, 31y
Emmie · #115, 30y
Milly · #116, 29y
Nell · #114, 33y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Emmie · #115, 30y
Elea · #114, 21y
Faolan · #116, 27y
Kurtis · #116, 31y

Neve was ranked #115 in England and Wales · Girls in 2008. 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.

Neve 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 Neve without appearing here.

Neve moved ahead of

Dylan Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2683 and #2350 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #296 and #3848.
Amalie Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2683 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #689 and #3824.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2683 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #689 and #3824.
Evan Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2683 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #689 and #3174.

Moved ahead of Neve

Eabha Compare
In 2005 they stood at #267 and #343 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2006 that had become #384 and #145.
Fiadh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #358 and #404 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #583 and #374.
Heidi Compare
In 2005 they stood at #267 and #293 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2006 that had become #384 and #184.
Bonnie Compare
In 2015 they stood at #224 and #277 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #276 and #123.

Moved the opposite way to Neve

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neve went from #2683 to #583 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neve went from #2683 to #583 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neve went from #2683 to #583 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neve went from #2683 to #583 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Neve

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neve went from #2683 to #583 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neve went from #2683 to #583 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neve went from #2683 to #583 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Neve went from #2683 to #583 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #115 in England and Wales in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Neve

Neve at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Neve across 2 official records

Neve by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Neve at a glance

Neve across 2 official records

Neve by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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