girls:
10 births since 1974
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
16 births since 1995
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
26 births since 1974
#7713 (0th percentile)
The name Apache is the #7,713 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 26 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1995. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1974.
Apache first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (1974 for girls and 1995 for boys). Birth data for Apache is available in 5 out of the 34 years between 1974 and 2007 (3 years for boys and 2 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 Apache has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (61.5% of all recorded births). In 2007, 100.0% of babies named Apache were boys. Interestingly, until around 1995, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1974 to 1994), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 1995 to 2007).
For boys, Apache reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #799) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
For girls, Apache reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #746) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Apache".
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