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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Neo” in the USA?

Number of people named “Neo” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Neo” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Neo” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Neo” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Neo” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Neo” by birth year

This chart shows how “Neo” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1999 24 0.000006497 24 -100%
2000 116 0.000030689 116 -100%
2001 111 0.000029652 111 -100%
2002 66 0.000017655 66 -100%
2003 84 0.000022092 84 -100%
2004 108 0.000028265 108 -100%
2005 80 0.000020807 80 -100%
2006 103 0.000026035 103 -100%
2007 69 0.00001726 69 -100%
2008 64 0.000016282 64 -100%
2009 78 0.000020418 78 -100%
2010 62 0.000016776 62 -100%
2011 78 0.000021324 78 -100%
2012 69 0.000018866 69 -100%
2013 60 0.000016458 60 -100%
2014 93 0.000025092 93 -100%
2015 81 0.000021886 81 -100%
2016 100 0.000027258 100 -100%
2017 84 0.000023489 84 -100%
2018 144 0.000040957 144 -100%
2019 122 0.000035149 122 -100%
2020 180 0.000053883 180 -100%
2021 233 0.000068773 6 227 -95%
2022 240 0.00007094 240 -100%
2023 226 0.000068253 226 -100%
2024 232 0.000069701 232 -100%

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