girls:
1k births since 1969
#4687 (18th percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1969
#6710 (13th percentile)
The name Africa is the #6,710 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,029 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 13.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,687 (18.0% percentile) for all time with 1,029 births since 1969.
Africa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (first recorded for girls in 1969).
For girls, Africa reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 9.6% percentile (ranked #672) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 47 births per million (ranked 9.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Africa ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 14.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Africa".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Africa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.3% confident that Africa is pronounced as A-frih-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-fruh-kah, at 12.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 F R IH0 K AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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