Trendy Names
Jennifer Lee writes in The New York Times And if It’s a Boy, Will It Be Lleh? Her lead paragraph says: “Chances are you don’t have any friends named Nevaeh. Chances are today’s toddlers will.”
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Nevaeh is not in the Bible or any religious text. It is not from a foreign language. It is not the name of a celebrity, real or fictional.
Nevaeh is Heaven spelled backward
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The surge of Nevaeh can be traced to a single event: the appearance of a Christian rock star, Sonny Sandoval of P.O.D., on MTV in 2000 with his baby daughter, Nevaeh. “Heaven spelled backwards,” he said.