Popularity: The name Nery ranked 3355th in popularity for females of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census.

Though this name appears on the 1990 U.S. Census lists, it is used by only a small percentage of the general population.

Narrative: This is a surname found both in Ireland and in Portuguese-speaking countries. The relationship between the two surnames is not known, and their identical spellings could be merely a coincidence.