Néyo

Name: Néyo: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

given name · Latin script

Néyo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.

rarermore common

CMCameroon≈1 in 155K(inferred from the name graph)
NGNigeria≈1 in 313K
ZASouth Africa≈1 in 338K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 39 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 155K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Neyo in US United States, NG Nigeria, ZA South Africa and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Néyo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Néyo is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
NG Nigeria	≈680 est.	≈1 in 313K	—	Neyo	11
CM Cameroon	≈180 est.	≈1 in 155K	—	Neyo	1
ZA South Africa	≈170 est.	≈1 in 338K	—	Neyo	5
US United States	≈29 est.	≈1 in 11M	6	Neyo	39
CO Colombia	≈29 est.	≈1 in 1.7M	—	Neyo	6
NL Netherlands	23	1 in 751K	23	—	1
SE Sweden	18	1 in 567K	18	—	—
JM Jamaica	≈7 est.	≈1 in 415K	—	Neyo	2

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Néyo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Hindi given name3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Also written Neyo
French given name4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Cameroon
Also written Neyo, Ne-Yo, Nèyo

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Néyo under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Néyo a male or female name?: Néyo is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Néyo have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 683 people named Néyo in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neyo.
How common is the name Néyo?: In the Netherlands, the national register counted 23 people named Néyo, about 1 in 751 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Néyo?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A9yo

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-10 and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Néyo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)