About the name Neo
Neo belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Neo first appears in Social Security records in 1990. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #949 in 2022, and in 2024 232 babies received the name — 2,906 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.