girls:
41 births since 2011
#5675 (1st percentile)
boys:
208 births since 2009
#4378 (4th percentile)
overall:
249 births since 2009
#7490 (3rd percentile)
The name Bawi is the #7,490 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 249 recorded births since 2009. This represents the 3.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,378 (4.5% percentile) for all time with 208 births since 2009. For girls, it ranks #5,675 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 41 births since 2011.
Bawi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2009 (2009 for boys and 2011 for girls).
The name Bawi has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Bawi were boys.
For boys, Bawi reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #878) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Bawi ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 20.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Bawi reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #956) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bawi".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Bawi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.9% confident that Bawi is pronounced as BAH-wee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BOW-ee, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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