Neda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Slavic short form of names like Nedeljka; Sunday
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Neda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 8.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- IRIran≈1 in 30K
- USUnited States1 in 108K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Slavic short form of names like Nedeljka; Sunday
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #752 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Neda | 7 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Neda | 20 |
| US United States | — | 3,088 | 1 in 108K | 3.1K | Neda | 278 |
| HR Croatia | — | 2,832 | 1 in 1.5K | 2.8K | — | — |
| IR Iran | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Neda | 66 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Neda | 8 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 324 | 1 in 6.5K | 327 | — | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Neda 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.
Nacida en domingo
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Tutor neo
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Sundanese, to eat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Neda Naldib. 1913ITItalian actor and screenwriter (1913–1993)
- Neda Cajthamlováb. 1932CZCzech architect
- Neda Bokanb. 1947RSSerbian mathematician
- Neda Ukradenb. 1950RSYugoslavian and Serbian singer
- Neda Arnerićb. 1953RSSerbian actress (1953–2020)
- Neda Soltanib. 1977IRIranian author
- Neda Rahmanianb. 1978DEGerman actress of Iranian origin
- Neda Agha-Soltanb. 1982IRIranian musician and journalist
- Neda Shahsavarib. 1986IRIranian table tennis player
- Neda Jebraeilib. 1990IRIranian actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 68 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.1K | #5,525 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 2.8K | #298 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 2.3K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 327 | #764 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 324 | #384 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #5,525 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 15 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Neda mean, and where does it come from?
- Slavic short form of names like Nedeljka; Sunday Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Neda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Neda in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neda.
- Where is Neda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Neda is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though Afghanistan holds more of our records for it.
- Is Neda a male or female name?
- Neda 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 are other forms of the name Neda?
- In the etymology graph, Neli is a form of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Nediljka and Nedjeljka.
- How common is the name Neda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,088 people named Neda in 2020, about 1 in 108 thousand residents.
- How common is Neda compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Neda is the 752nd most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nedaThe 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, “Neda” — the 752nd most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.