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Neena

Gender
Girl
Say it
NEE-na
US rank, 2025
#8,858 for girls

Neena is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).

Where does Neena come from?

Phonetic spelling of Nina, a name with several sources

Is Neena a girl's or a boy's name?

Neena is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Neena in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 12 girls.

Half of all the girls named Neena in the UK since 1996 were born between 2002 and 2009. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 12 in 20092018
Neena in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20184#4,914
20175#4,250
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20125#4,390
20110–
20100–
200912#2,153
20080–
20073#5,415
20063#5,259
20051#6,340
20047#2,669
20034#3,768
20026#2,691
20010–
20000–
19995#2,912
19980–
19976#2,552
19963#3,935

How popular is Neena in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,858among girls
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 150,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 20% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Neena, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 48 girls. It first appears in the records in 1939.

Half of all the girls named Neena in the US since 1880 were born between 1976 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 957 girls in the US were given Neena or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #350, up from #8,858 for this spelling alone.

1939Busiest: 48 in 20042025
Neena in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202511#8,858
202413#7,962
202311#8,984
202215#7,276
202114#7,625
202013#7,964
20199#10,467
201822#5,615
201731#4,475
201628#4,849
201524#5,456
201427#5,023
201328#4,885
201231#4,599
201129#4,806
201029#4,859
200934#4,369
200838#4,088
200741#3,847
200648#3,367
200540#3,642
200448#3,176
200338#3,651
200247#3,065
200130#4,103
200031#3,978
199935#3,506
199834#3,494
199731#3,623
199636#3,232
199529#3,665
199437#3,093
199319#4,992
199226#3,962
199129#3,627
199017#5,281
198929#3,471
198824#3,800
198732#2,970
198620#4,026
198530#3,007
198423#3,526
198315#4,685
198232#2,830
198128#3,066
198035#2,651
197913#5,091
197810#5,957
197716#4,234
197611#5,213
197513#4,591
197420#3,313
197321#3,121
197215#3,894
197110#5,134
19709#5,412
19696#6,615
196811#4,221
196714#3,483
196613#3,557
19659#4,493
19648#5,007
196314#3,457
196217#3,032
196121#2,672
196017#2,988
195914#3,253
195815#3,084
195722#2,415
195616#2,928
195521#2,410
195410#3,717
195315#2,811
195217#2,580
195117#2,473
195011#3,234
19496#4,672
19487#4,203
19476#4,762
19467#3,993
19459#3,131
19446#4,052
19435#4,690
19427#3,736
19410–
19400–
19395#4,248

Names like Neena

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Keira Kiara Aisha Hana Maya Eden Niamh Cara Safa Summer Erin Ayla

Other spellings of Neena

Nina

Names related to Neena

Nena Nene Neenah

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Neena: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/neena, updated 20 October 2026.