Neha
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nhə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 17K
- USUnited States1 in 33K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neha 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | listed | Neha | 51 |
| BD Bangladesh | #980 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | listed | Neha | 28 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Neha | 37 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Neha | 55 |
| US United States | — | 10,101 | 1 in 33K | 10K | Neha | 335 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 4 | Neha | 133 |
| SG Singapore | #938 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Neha | 56 |
| IN India | #196 | — | — | 1.6K | Neha | 288 |
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: The Indian name database provides a list of popular Indian surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency,; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Neha is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name from Hindi, of mainly Indian usage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Southern Sotho, to give
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mcq, rain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In umb, stink
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Neha Dhupiab. 1980INIndian actress
- Neha Ahujab. 1981INIndian alpine skier
- Neha Bhasinb. 1982INIndian singer
- Neha Kapurb. 1984INIndian model, actress, and beauty pageant titleholder
- Neha Mardab. 1985INIndian actress
- Neha Hingeb. 1986INIndian model
- Neha Sharmab. 1987INIndian actress
- Neha Kakkarb. 1988INIndian singer (born 1988)
- Neha Mahajanb. 1990INIndian film actress (born 1990)
- Neha DubeyINIndian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10K | #2,452 |
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 4.7K | #962 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 786 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 22 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17 | #2,452 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 4 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2010 | 4 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2016 | 2 | #518 |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Neha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Neha in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neha.
- How common is the name Neha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,101 people named Neha in 2020, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Neha compared with other names?
- In India, Neha is the 196th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Neha?
- A machine transcription gives /nhə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Neha a male or female name?
- Neha is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What do you want to know about Neha?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nehaThe 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 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, “Neha” — the 196th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.