girls:
199 births since 1994
#5517 (3rd percentile)
boys:
36 births since 2010
#4550 (1st percentile)
overall:
235 births since 1994
#7504 (3rd percentile)
The name Aoi is the #7,504 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 235 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 3.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,517 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 199 births since 1994. For boys, it ranks #4,550 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 2010.
Aoi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for girls and 2010 for boys). Birth data for Aoi is available in 25 out of the 30 years between 1994 and 2023 (23 years for girls and 5 years for boys). 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 Aoi has been given predominantly to girls, with 84.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Aoi were girls.
For girls, Aoi reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #940) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
For boys, Aoi reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #916) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aoi ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 88.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aoi".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Aoi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.6% confident that Aoi is pronounced as AH-oy, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AW-ee, at 15.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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