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Gender-Neutral Baby Names New Zealand Parents Are Choosing

Names that work for any pēpi are one of the fastest-moving parts of the New Zealand data. These are the neutral names with real registration numbers behind them.

Popular gender-neutral names

  1. 01Riley
    243 babies a year
  2. 02Manaia
    220 babies a year
  3. 03Quinn
    206 babies a year
  4. 04River
    196 babies a year
  5. 05Sage
    159 babies a year
  6. 06Wren
    89 babies a year
  7. 07Indi
    74 babies a year
  8. 08Marlowe
    70 babies a year

About this data: figures come from Department of Internal Affairs birth registrations for 1954-2025. The DIA only publishes a name for a given year when at least 10 babies were registered with it, so rarer names - and rarer spellings - are missing entirely, and a name can drop out of the record in quieter years. Spelling variants are counted separately, and counts reflect first names as registered.

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