Nevena
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NEH-veh-nah
- Origin
- Slavic
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Nevena is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “marigold”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Nevena mean?
Slavic: Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian, from neven
“marigold”
From neven, the South Slavic word for the marigold (calendula).
Is Nevena a girl's or a boy's name?
Nevena is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nevena in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2024, with 6 girls.
Nevena in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 1 | #7,520 |
How popular is Nevena in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Nevena, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 9 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Nevena in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nevena in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
Names like Nevena
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kiara, Keira, Brianna, Cliodhna, Kianna, Cassidy, Sienna, Fionnuala, Briana, Riona, Maeva, Nova
Names related to Nevena
More Slavic names
Mila, Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri
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, “Nevena: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nevena, updated 20 October 2026.