Re-NEET UG 2026 Female Toppers List: Top 20 Rankers, Category-Wise Breakdown

NTA’s official Re-NEET UG 2026 result includes a separate list of the country’s top 20 female scorers – and while Maharashtra’s Kudale Shravani Krishna sits at the very top, the more interesting pattern is in the states that follow her. No single state runs away with female representation this year; instead, Haryana and Tamil Nadu quietly tie for the most names on the list, with three candidates each, despite neither producing the No. 1 woman.

The Female Topper: Kudale Shravani Krishna

Kudale Shravani Krishna, competing in the OBC-NCL (Central List) category, tops the women’s list with a 99.99965 percentile and All India Rank 5 – also making her the highest-ranked OBC-NCL candidate, male or female, in the entire country this year. Right behind her is Bihar’s Riya Ranjan, matching her percentile exactly at AIR 6.

Re-NEET 2026: Full List of Top 20 Female Toppers

Rank	Candidate Name	Category	Percentile	AIR	State
1	Kudale Shravani Krishna	OBC-NCL	99.99965	5	Maharashtra
2	Riya Ranjan	OBC-NCL	99.99965	6	Bihar
3	Mansha Garg	General	99.9991517	Haryana
4	Vaishnavi Das	General	99.9979	20	Karnataka
5	Manasvi Kulshrestha	General	99.9979	23	Haryana
6	Kashvi Dhall	General	99.9979	24	Delhi
7	Srinika V	General	99.9979	27	Tamil Nadu
8	Ashi Goyal	General	99.9979	29	Punjab
9	Namala Prerana	General	99.9979	36	Andhra Pradesh
10	Aanvi Saxena	General	99.9979	41	Haryana
11	Hiya Jasmin Vasavada	General	99.99785	43	Gujarat
12	Suchita M	General	99.9964	8	Karnataka
13	Vanisha Satish	General	99.9965	1	Tamil Nadu
14	Gunjan	OBC-NCL	99.9965	2	Uttar Pradesh
15	Bhavika Gupta	General	99.9965	6	Punjab
16	Anushka Choudhary	OBC-NCL	99.9965	8	Rajasthan
17	Hanshika	General	99.996	60	Delhi
18	Bhavyaa Gunwal	General	99.996	71	Rajasthan
19	Samvitha P	OBC-NCL	99.9958	82	Tamil Nadu
20	Kompella Sai Gayathri Tejoarunima	General	99.9958	83	Telangana

Source: NTA’s official “List of 20 female toppers in the NEET (UG)-2026 re-examination,” released alongside the Re-NEET result.

The Real Story: Category and State Spread

• 15 of the 20 female toppers are from the General category, with the remaining 5 from OBC-NCL – no SC, ST or EWS candidates feature in the national female top 20 this year
• Haryana and Tamil Nadu each place 3 candidates on the list – more than any other state, including Maharashtra and Bihar, whose women hold the top two individual ranks but only one slot each
• Karnataka, Delhi, Punjab and Rajasthan each place 2 – a fairly even spread across large states
• Maharashtra, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana each contribute exactly 1 name to the list

How This Compares to the Overall Merit List

• The outright national topper spot went to two men – Punjab’s Aryan Gupta and Haryana’s Panshul Bansal, both at AIR 1 with 715/720
• The highest-ranked woman, Kudale Shravani Krishna, sits at AIR 5 – meaning the gap between the top male and top female score this year is just 4 ranks
• Every one of the top 6 All India Ranks this year went to either a man or a woman from the General or OBC-NCL categories, reflecting how tightly bunched scores are at the very top of the percentile scale

Female Candidates: The Bigger National Picture

Beyond the top-20 list, NTA’s own year-wise data shows female candidates have consistently outnumbered male candidates in NEET (UG) registrations for years – a pattern that continued through the 2026 re-exam.

Female registrations, 2019–2026:

Year	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
Female registered	8,38,955	8,80,843	9,03,774	10,64,794	11,84,513	13,76,863	13,10,062	13,32,914

Female registrations rose steadily from 2019 through a 2024 peak, dipped slightly in 2025, and ticked back up marginally in 2026.

Gender-wise registered, appeared and qualified — 2025 vs 2026:

Gender	2025 Registered	2025 Appeared	2025 Qualified	2026 Registered	2026 Appeared	2026 Qualified
Female	13,10,062	12,71,896	7,22,462	13,32,914	11,52,152	6,54,049
Male	9,65,996	9,37,411	5,14,063	9,46,815	8,47,732	4,67,134
Third gender	11	11	6	14	11	2

A few things stand out from this data:

• Women made up nearly 58.5% of all registered candidates in 2026 (13,32,914 of 22,79,743), maintaining the majority share they’ve held for several years running
• Female appearance dropped more sharply than registration between 2025 and 2026 – from 12,71,896 to 11,52,152 – a gap of roughly 1.2 lakh candidates who registered but did not sit the exam
• The female qualification rate held nearly steady year-on-year: about 56.8% of female candidates who appeared qualified in 2025, versus about 56.8% in 2026 as well, despite the drop in absolute numbers
• Female qualifiers still comfortably outnumber male qualifiers nationally – 6,54,049 women qualified in 2026 against 4,67,134 men – even though the 20-name topper list skews toward male representation at the very peak of the percentile scale

What This Means Going Into Counselling

With such a tight percentile spread among the leading candidates – several toppers separated by fractions of a percentile point – closing ranks for top government colleges are likely to be extremely sensitive to category and state-quota rules this year. Female candidates from Haryana and Tamil Nadu in particular may find unusually strong competition within their own state-quota pools, given how many high scorers each state is fielding. At the same time, the broader female qualifier pool — nearly 6.5 lakh candidates nationally – means competition will remain intense well beyond the top ranks.

What Candidates Should Do Next

• Cross-check personal AIR and percentile against the official NTA scorecard at neet.nta.nic.in
• Track respective state counselling authorities for merit list publication and registration timelines
• Category certificates should be verified early, particularly for OBC-NCL candidates given their strong presence in this year’s female topper list