girls:
21 births since 1915
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
74 births since 1884
#4512 (2nd percentile)
overall:
95 births since 1884
#7644 (1st percentile)
The name Ah is the #7,644 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 95 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 1.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,512 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 74 births since 1884. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1915.
Ah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 1915 for girls). Birth data for Ah is available in 14 out of the 108 years between 1884 and 1991 (11 years for boys and 4 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ah has been given predominantly to boys, with 77.9% of all recorded births being male. In 1991, 0.0% of babies named Ah were boys. Interestingly, until around 1982, the name was more popular for boys (88.1% boys from 1884 to 1981), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1982 to 1991).
For boys, Ah reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #498) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 55 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1922.
For girls, Ah reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #849) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ah".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.8% confident that Ah is pronounced as ah, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh, at 18.2% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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