girls:
6 births since 2020
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
38 births since 2018
#4548 (1st percentile)
overall:
44 births since 2018
#7695 (1st percentile)
The name Acai is the #7,695 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 44 recorded births since 2018. This represents the 0.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,548 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 2018. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2020.
Acai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2018 (2018 for boys and 2020 for girls).
The name Acai has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Acai were boys.
For boys, Acai reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #920) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Acai ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 56.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Acai reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #939) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Acai".
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Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Acai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 16.3% confident that Acai is pronounced as uh-SAI, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ah-SAI, at 16.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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