boys:
982 births since 1997
#3610 (21st percentile)
overall:
982 births since 1997
#6757 (13th percentile)
The name Bane is the #6,757 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 982 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 12.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,610 (21.2% percentile) for all time with 982 births since 1997.
Bane first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (first recorded for boys in 1997). Birth data for Bane is available in 24 out of the 27 years between 1997 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Bane reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 13.1% percentile (ranked #772) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 60 births per million (ranked 13.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Bane ranks #866 for boys (4.9% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 45.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bane".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Bane is pronounced as bayn, which has 1 syllables.
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