Neela
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Neela is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Syria it is the 59th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Azul.
- SYSyria1 in 736◐
- KWKuwait1 in 1.4K
- EGEgypt1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈39K ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 256 ●
- 1 in 3.4K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
356K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Hala in SY Syria, US United States, EG Egypt and 17 more, Nilo in PH Philippines, NO Norway, Nilu in IN India and Nil in NG Nigeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Azul
Sources 1
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Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #823 | 454,971 | 213K rec. | — | 1.4K | Nilu | 117 |
| SY Syria | #59 | 45,249 | 47K rec. | — | 1 | Hala | 51 |
| NG Nigeria | #157 | 42,542 | 309 rec. | — | — | Nil | 16 |
| EG Egypt | #179 | 27,869 | 9.9K rec. | — | listed | Hala | 115 |
| BR Brazil | — | 14,297△ | 202 rec. | 1 in 15K | 19K | Hala | 32 |
| ES Spain | — | 12,328△ | 746 rec. | 1 in 4.1K | 12K | Hala | 43 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 10,189 | 10K rec. | — | — | Hala | 32 |
| BD Bangladesh | #423 | 5,456 | 7.2K rec. | — | — | Nill | 38 |
| US United States | — | 5,451 | 32K rec. | 1 in 61K | 5.5K | Hala | 256 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #277 | 3,961 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Hala | 110 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 2,521△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 6.7K | 2.5K | — | 5 |
| JO Jordan | #300 | 2,370 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Hala | 93 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi28K46%
- English8.1K13%
- Finnish6.7K11%
- French6.1K10%
- 4.5K7%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 28,347 | 46% |
| English | 8,107 | 13% |
| Finnish | 6,710 | 11% |
| French | 6,108 | 10% |
| 4,450 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 10 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 10 |
| 1982 | 8 |
| 1984 | 8 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 10 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2003 | 12 |
| 2004 | 40 |
| 2005 | 46 |
| 2006 | 69 |
| 2007 | 103 |
| 2008 | 93 |
| 2009 | 85 |
| 2010 | 68 |
| 2011 | 62 |
| 2012 | 47 |
| 2013 | 53 |
| 2014 | 54 |
| 2015 | 59 |
| 2016 | 27 |
| 2017 | 48 |
| 2018 | 54 |
| 2019 | 52 |
| 2020 | 44 |
| 2021 | 36 |
| 2022 | 44 |
| 2023 | 44 |
| 2024 | 54 |
| 2025 | 47 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 41 years between 1972–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Neela Winkelmann-Heyrovskáb. 1969CZCzech biologist
- Neela Vaswanib. 1974USwriter
- Neela Antikainenb. 2004FIFinnish association football player
- Neela Joleneb. 2006USAmerican actress (born 2006)
- Neela BhagwatINIndian musician
- Neela Enkebotanist
- Neela GuhaUSresearcher
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●
Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.9K | #2,062 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.7K | #1,202 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,800 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.4K | #995 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 772 | #6,659 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 78 | #10,097 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 69 | #2,079 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 52 | #11,748 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 48 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 47 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 38 | #1,868 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 196 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Neela?
- We estimate roughly 39 thousand people bear Neela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Neela have the most bearers?
- Neela is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled nilu.
- How common is Neela compared with other names?
- In India, Neela is the 823rd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Neela a male or female name?
- Neela is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Neela mean?
- Recorded meaning: Azul
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Neela” — the 823rd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.