Given name
Neymar
Neymar is a masculine given name from Portuguese. It is used in Spanish and Portuguese.
Original PortugueseNeimar
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Neymar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,902
- 2,897 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 504 babies
- 2025
- 53
- #2,527 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −52%
- Cooling
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 53 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,527 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 52.5% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 499 in 2014. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (7).
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Neymar’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Neymar has a related form in NEIMAR.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Neymar
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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