boys:
1.6k births since 1900
#3100 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1900
#6185 (20th percentile)
The name Bonifacio is the #6,185 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,561 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 20.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,100 (32.4% percentile) for all time with 1,561 births since 1900.
Bonifacio first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (first recorded for boys in 1900). Birth data for Bonifacio is available in 110 out of the 124 years between 1900 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, Bonifacio reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 5.7% percentile (ranked #495) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 37 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Bonifacio ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 14.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bonifacio".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Bonifacio. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.3% confident that Bonifacio is pronounced as BAH-nih-FAH-shee-oh, which has 5 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bah-nih-FAY-see-oh, at 15.8% confidence, with 5 syllables.
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