first name
NEREIDA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 6,771 people named Nereida, 97.8% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino and 1.2% as White. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Nereida peaked in 1981, when 155 babies got the name.
At least 3,703 babies have been given the name since 1936. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Nereida by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #2,380. The largest share of babies named Nereida, 32.6%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Nereida is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nereida has been most common in New York (4.2×), California (3.1×), and Texas (2.7×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.22×).
2,556 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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