About the name Ney
Ney belongs to the Portuguese 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, Ney first appears in Social Security records in 1889. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1066 in 1889, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 31 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.