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Neville

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Neville is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
70.00% of boys
Peak year
197542 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1905
2,405people given the name
Babies named Neville, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

2,330 boys have been named Neville in the United States since 1905, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 42 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1970s alone account for 12%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 75 girls have also been given it, 3.1% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Neville
1900s17
1910s145
1920s225
1930s233
1940s159
1950s199
1960s239
1970s273
1980s268
1990s247
2000s135
2010s143
2020s47

In 1975, its biggest year

Neville was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1975 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, James and David. See all of 1975.

Names that rose and fell with Neville

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.