Neal Boy Name

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The name Neal is of Celtic origin, and means champion. The table below indicates the number of times the name Neal has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Neal**
Use of the Name Neal for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
52,335	30,128	9,041	1,659	508	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Neal has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Neal last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 2002, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Neal**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	257	43
1881	275	33
1882	292	35
1883	308	29
1884	294	36
1885	294	33
1886	271	40
1887	269	37
1888	294	37
1889	274	38
1890	273	40
1891	275	35
1892	315	35
1893	305	33
1894	277	41
1895	292	38
1896	321	35
1897	277	43
1898	295	40
1899	310	33
1900	268	59
1901	342	29
1902	277	47
1903	264	49
1904	292	44
1905	302	45
1906	319	43
1907	311	47
1908	332	46
1909	337	48
1910	307	65
1911	345	63
1912	337	127
1913	346	143
1914	352	176
1915	355	228
1916	310	282
1917	326	279
1918	337	288
1919	330	293
1920	293	372
1921	313	345
1922	282	389
1923	280	406
1924	282	411
1925	283	415
1926	280	416
1927	291	382
1928	291	378
1929	301	340
1930	291	384
1931	286	370
1932	283	374
1933	277	363
1934	258	436
1935	265	417
1936	265	419
1937	261	428
1938	258	446
1939	256	443
1940	237	511
1941	235	539
1942	236	571
1943	264	530
1944	237	569
1945	231	579
1946	232	672
1947	241	731
1948	242	712
1949	239	740
1950	219	840
1951	207	953
1952	198	1,139
1953	216	971
1954	212	1,081
1955	220	1,060
1956	220	1,103
1957	218	1,190
1958	227	1,157
1959	222	1,225
1960	235	1,185
1961	237	1,119
1962	241	1,031
1963	227	1,089
1964	223	1,129
1965	250	884
1966	254	814
1967	268	741
1968	291	651
1969	285	699
1970	289	717
1971	312	603
1972	333	534
1973	323	539
1974	314	583
1975	293	648
1976	322	548
1977	309	619
1978	307	583
1979	306	636
1980	323	592
1981	321	594
1982	341	551
1983	329	574
1984	332	565
1985	339	563
1986	350	539
1987	409	453
1988	421	459
1989	411	518
1990	460	460
1991	470	443
1992	508	396
1993	520	383
1994	612	292
1995	653	255
1996	639	263
1997	672	243
1998	766	207
1999	828	183
2000	894	174
2001	920	168
2002	961	166
Totals:		52,335		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Neal as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Neal appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 123 times during the last 125 years.

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