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Neal
Pronounced /niːl/
Rank in 2024
#1,995
Born in 2024
77
Peak year
1959 · #222
Origin
Irish
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 77 boys were named Neal, about 1 in every 22,277.
- It peaked in 1959 with 1,223 babies, ranked #222.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 54,960 boys have been named Neal since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Neal per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 0.4Silent1928–45
- 0.5Boomers1946–64
- 0.4Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5,480 babies, 0.33 per 1,000. Silent: 8,101 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Boomers: 19,159 babies, 0.51 per 1,000. Gen X: 10,396 babies, 0.38 per 1,000. Millennials: 7,335 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,327 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,370 babies, 0.06 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
- A male given name from Irish, transferred from the surname.
- A male given name, variant of Neil.
- Origin
- Irish
- Say it
- /niːl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Neal, CC BY-SA 4.0.