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Girl · Modern American coinage
Nevaeh
Say it: nuh-VAY-uh
Meaning
A modern American coinage: the word heaven spelled backwards.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Almost unknown before rock singer Sonny Sandoval named his daughter Nevaeh in 2000, it reached the US top 30 within a decade.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2010s
In the United States
- 86,342 babies given this name since 1997
- At its height in 2010, about 1 in 276 girls
- 3,081 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Neveah
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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