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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Neal

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#1,914

up +92 places

2025 births

82

up +5 births

All-time births

55,048

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1959
1,222 births
Best rank
#198
in 1952
First recorded
1880
#257 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1959
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19591,222#223Peak
  2. 19571,192#218
  3. 19601,192#233
  4. 19581,157#227
  5. 19521,143#198

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #198 in 1952 · peak births 1,222 in 1959

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

55,048 boys · 257 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Neal has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.