Neymar

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 197 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
197
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#5137
3 babies

How Neymar has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2016. Lower is more popular.
#720#842#964201520162016#891

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YearUS rank
2015#793
2016#891

Neymar by the numbers

In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Neymar. In the US, 197 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 499 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Neymar

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

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