girls:
16 births since 1989
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1994
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
27 births since 1989
#7712 (0th percentile)
The name Asian is the #7,712 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1989. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1994.
Asian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for girls and 1994 for boys). Birth data for Asian is available in 5 out of the 9 years between 1989 and 1997 (3 years for girls and 2 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 Asian has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (59.3% of all recorded births). In 1997, 0.0% of babies named Asian were girls.
For girls, Asian reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
For boys, Asian reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #791) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Asian".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Asian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.4% confident that Asian is pronounced as AY-zhuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-shuhn, at 28.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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