Meaning and history
Neal is a variant of Neil.
20062006: 139 births, rank #1,202
2007: 116 births, rank #1,405
2008: 112 births, rank #1,467
2009: 113 births, rank #1,472
2010: 114 births, rank #1,447
20112011: 97 births, rank #1,587
2012: 105 births, rank #1,523
2013: 99 births, rank #1,568
2014: 120 births, rank #1,402
2015: 152 births, rank #1,210
20162016: 152 births, rank #1,229
2017: 132 births, rank #1,348
2018: 102 births, rank #1,606
2019: 118 births, rank #1,468
2020: 104 births, rank #1,568
20212021: 110 births, rank #1,577
2022: 110 births, rank #1,597
2023: 95 births, rank #1,735
2024: 77 births, rank #1,997
20252025: 82 births, rank #1,906
Neal moved from #911 to #952 for boys between 2001 and 2002. Its highest annual birth count came in 1959, with 1,222 births.